U+7FA5 "羥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
羥
U+7FA5 "羥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily functions as a chemical term, specifically representing the hydroxyl group (OH-) in organic chemistry, where its meaning relates to a "hydroxy" or "oxhydryl" radical. It is composed of the radical for sheep or goat (羊) combined with a phonetic component, and its pronunciation in Mandarin is qiǎng or jīng, depending on context. In modern usage, this character appears in specialized scientific and medical texts rather than everyday language, and it remains an important part of the technical vocabulary for describing certain compounds and reactions in Chinese-language chemistry and pharmacology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7FA5 |
| 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 | 羥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 羥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xBE 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7FA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007FA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7fa5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DF6D |
| kCCCII | 227531 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4634 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4634 |
| kCangjie | TQMVM |
| kCantonese | koeng5 |
| kCihaiT | 1072.501 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1396.210 |
| kDefinition | hydroxyl group |
| kFanqie | 苦閑 口莖 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8151.1 |
| kGB1 | 8439 |
| kHanYu | 53132.160 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53132.160:qiān,qiǎng |
| kIICore | CT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1396.210 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53132.160 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0952.270 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7447 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DF6D |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-020624 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5378 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4634 |
| kJapanese | コウ キョウ カン ケン |
| kKangXi | 0952.270 |
| kMandarin | qiǎng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ020624 |
| kMorohashi | 28499 |
| kPhonetic | 623 |
| kRSUnicode | 123.7 |
| kSBGY | 129.29 188.07 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "羟" U+7F9F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 539.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qiǎng粵koeng5 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 320:353 |
| kXHC1983 | 0919.011:qiǎng |