U+7978 "祸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7978 "祸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of disaster, misfortune, or calamity. It is composed of the radical "礻" (示), which relates to spirits or divine matters, and the phonetic component "呙" (guō), though the modern pronunciation is "huò" in Mandarin. This character appears frequently in classical and contemporary Chinese literature, such as in the common phrase "祸福相依" (good fortune and misfortune depend on each other), reflecting its role in expressing concepts of harm, misfortune, or negative events in both written and spoken Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7978
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	祸
HTML Hex Encoding	祸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA5 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7978
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007978
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7978

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

kCCCII	274E77
kCangjie	IFROB
kCantonese	wo6
kDefinition	misfortune, calamity, disaster
kEACC	274E77
kFourCornerCode	3622
kGB0	2786
kHanYu	42399.210
kHanyuPinlu	huò(16)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42399.210
kIRGKangXi	0843.261
kIRG_GSource	G0-3B76
kTGH	2013:2465
kKangXi	0843.261
kMainlandTelegraph	4393
kMandarin	huò
kPhonetic	700*
kRSUnicode	113.7
kSMSZD2003Index	480.11
kTGHZ2013	151.130:huò
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"禍" U+798D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0514.060:huò