U+9722 "霢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

霢

U+9722 "霢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that originally described a fine, drizzling rain or mist, often associated with a light and continuous sprinkle. Its components include the rain radical (雨) at the top, indicating its meteorological nature, and a phonetic or semantic element related to veins or pathways, suggesting the idea of moisture seeping or flowing subtly. In classical texts, it sometimes appears in poetic descriptions of gentle rainfall or as a variant in historical transcriptions of ancient names. Due to its obscurity, it is not commonly found in modern Chinese writing or standard dictionaries, but it remains an example of the nuanced vocabulary for natural phenomena in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9722
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	霢
HTML Hex Encoding	霢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9C 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9722
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009722
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9722

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	F177
kCCCII	234C49
kCNS1986	2-6443
kCNS1992	2-6443
kCangjie	MBBHV
kCantonese	mak6
kCihaiT	1456.401
kDaeJaweon	1886.090
kDefinition	dust
kEACC	234C49
kFanqie	莫獲
kFourCornerCode	1021.3
kGB5	8364
kGSR	0848c
kHanYu	64073.060
kHanyuPinyin	64073.060:mài
kIRGDaeJaweon	1886.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64073.060
kIRGKangXi	1377.090
kIRG_GSource	G5-7360
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F177
kIRG_JSource	J1-6728
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-8483
kIRG_KSource	K2-6C44
kIRG_TSource	T2-6443
kJapanese	バクミャクベキ
kJapaneseKun	KOSAME
kJapaneseOn	BAKU MYAKU BEKI
kJis1	7108
kKangXi	1377.090
kMandarin	mài
kMatthews	4383
kMojiJoho	MJ027841
kMorohashi	42385
kPhonetic	876
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19968+173.8.10
kRSUnicode	173.10
kSBGY	513.20
kSemanticVariant	U+9721<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"霡" U+9721 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	761.14
kSMSZD2003Readings	mài粵mak6
kTaiwanTelegraph	7210
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	316:131
kXHC1983	0761.041:mài