U+798D "禍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
禍
U+798D "禍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents calamity, disaster, or misfortune, often appearing in philosophical and literary contexts as a counterpoint to blessings or good fortune. Its structure combines the radical for spirit or divinity with a phonetic component, reflecting ancient beliefs that such events were linked to spiritual forces. In common East Asian usage, it appears in compounds like "災禍" meaning catastrophe and "禍根" meaning root cause of trouble, and it carries a weighty significance in idioms such as "禍不單行," which conveys that misfortunes seldom come singly.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+798D |
| 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 | 禍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 禍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA6 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x798D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000798D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u798d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BAD7 |
| kCCCII | 214E77 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-697E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-697E |
| kCangjie | IFBBR |
| kCantonese | wo6 |
| kCowles | 5062 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1265.190 |
| kDefinition | misfortune, calamity, disaster |
| kEACC | 214E77 |
| kFanqie | 胡果 |
| kFenn | 581D |
| kFennIndex | 215.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3722.7 |
| kGB1 | 2786 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0018f |
| kHangul | 화:0E |
| kHanYu | 42402.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | huò(16) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42402.040:huò |
| kHKGlyph | 2882 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1265.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42402.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0844.310 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3B76 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BAD7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3252 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F6B8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7C21 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-697E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6127 |
| kJapanese | カ わざわい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | WAZAWAI |
| kJapaneseOn | KA |
| kJis0 | 1850 |
| kKangXi | 0844.310 |
| kKarlgren | 437 |
| kKorean | HWA |
| kLau | 3250 |
| kMandarin | huò |
| kMatthews | 2399 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3779 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018894 MJ030280:FE00 MJ018894:E0102 MJ030280:E0103 MJ058212:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 24766' 24766:FE00 24766':E0102 24766:E0103 |
| kNelson | 3254 |
| kPhonetic | 700 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1362+113.4.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 113.9 |
| kSBGY | 307.12 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "祸" U+7978 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 481.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | huò粵wo6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4393 |
| kTang | huɑ̌ |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hoạ |
| kXerox | 247:360 |
| kXHC1983 | 0514.061:huò |