U+78FA "磺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
磺
U+78FA "磺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily associated with the meaning of sulfur, often used in chemical contexts to denote the element sulfur or related compounds. It is composed of the radical for "stone" (石) on the left, suggesting a mineral or solid substance, and a phonetic component on the right. Beyond chemistry, the character appears in words like "sulfuric acid" (硫酸, liúsuān) and in placenames such as "Huangshan" (黄山) in a distinct homophonic sense, though its core usage remains tied to the nonmetallic element. This character is categorized in East Asian typography as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, standard for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean written languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+78FA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 磺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 磺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA3 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x78FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000078FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u78fa |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C144 |
| kCCCII | 214E56 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-744E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-744E |
| kCangjie | MRTMC |
| kCantonese | wong4 |
| kCihaiT | 974.302 |
| kCowles | 5073 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1254.050 |
| kDefinition | sulphur; brimstone |
| kEACC | 4B4E56 |
| kFanqie | 胡光 |
| kFenn | 822F |
| kFennIndex | 205.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1468.6 |
| kGB0 | 2739 |
| kGB1 | 2739 |
| kHangul | 광:1N |
| kHanYu | 42451.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | huáng(25) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42451.050:kuàng,gǒng,huáng |
| kHKGlyph | 2846 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1254.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42451.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0836.350 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3B47 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C144 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-7258 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-60BE |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5978 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-744E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6074 |
| kJapanese | コウ オウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,82,56 |
| kJapaneseKun | ARAGANE |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis1 | 4825 |
| kKangXi | 0836.350 |
| kKarlgren | 106 |
| kKorean | KWANG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4337 |
| kMandarin | huáng |
| kMatthews | 2301 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3787 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018676 |
| kMorohashi | 24487 |
| kPhonetic | 1458 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+18227+112.5.12 C+18227+201.12.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 112.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 476.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | huáng粵wong4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4337 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | hoàng |
| kXerox | 262:242 |
| kXHC1983 | 0496.040:huáng |