U+78FE "磾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+78FE "磾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that historically refers to a type of black stone or a stone used for ink grinding, particularly in ancient contexts where it described a smooth, dark stone suitable for polishing or pigment preparation. In classical texts, it appears in compound names and place names, such as the historical figure Jin Midi from the Han dynasty, whose surname was sometimes written with this character. Today, it is a rare and largely obsolete character, primarily encountered in specialized linguistic, historical, or dictionary contexts rather than in modern Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+78FE
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 磾
HTML Hex Encoding 磾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xA3 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x78FE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000078FE
C/C++/Java Escape \u78fe

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive EDAD
kCCCII 226627
kCNS1986 2-5D78
kCNS1992 2-5D78
kCangjie MRRRJ
kCantonese dai1
kCihaiT 974.403
kDaeJaweon 1254.110
kDefinition dyestuff (black-colored mineral)
kEACC 226627
kFanqie 都奚
kFourCornerCode 1664.6
kGB3 5624
kHanYu 42456.090
kHanyuPinyin 42456.090:dī
kIRGDaeJaweon 1254.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42456.090
kIRGKangXi 0837.020
kIRG_GSource G3-5838
kIRG_HSource HB2-EDAD
kIRG_JSource J4-725A
kIRG_KPSource KP1-60D0
kIRG_KSource K2-4D4B
kIRG_TSource T2-5D78
kIRG_VSource V0-3F38
kJapanese テイ タイ
kJIS0213 2,82,58
kKangXi 0837.020
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ018680
kMorohashi 24495
kPhonetic 1294
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+18228+112.5.12
kRSUnicode 112.12
kSBGY 087.37
kSimplifiedVariant "䃅" U+40C5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 477.01
kSMSZD2003Readings dī粵dai1
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kVietnamese sạn
kXHC1983 0229.041:dī