U+791F "礟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
礟
U+791F "礟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character that typically refers to a type of ancient stone-throwing weapon, often interpreted as a variant of the character 炮 (pào), which originally denoted a catapult or cannon. Its structure combines the radical 石 (stone) suggesting material, with a phonetic component, and it appears in historical texts related to warfare or engineering. In modern usage, this character is largely superseded by its simplified or more common equivalents, though it remains preserved in specialized dictionaries and digital unicode sets for historical and philological reference.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+791F |
| 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 | 礟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 礟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA4 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x791F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000791F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u791f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | XMRSF |
| kCantonese | paau3 |
| kCowles | 3440 |
| kDefinition | ancient ballista for throwing heavy stones; a cannon, a gun |
| kHanYu | 42460.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42460.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0838.051 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4457 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5042 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-60ED |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-4D5A |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-6042 |
| kJapanese | ホウ |
| kJapaneseKun | ISHIHAJIKI |
| kJapaneseOn | HOU |
| kJis1 | 4834 |
| kKangXi | 0838.051 |
| kLau | 2460 |
| kMandarin | pào |
| kMatthews | 4969 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018711 |
| kMorohashi | 24552 |
| kPhonetic | 1077 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19612+112.5.14 |
| kRSUnicode | 112.14 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+792E<kLau,kMatthews |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |