U+972A "霪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+972A "霪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the rain radical (⻗) over the ideograph for “long” or “prolonged,” and it primarily signifies excessive or relentless rain, often connoting a long and heavy downpour that leads to flooding or waterlogging. In classical and modern Chinese usage, this character appears in words like “霪雨” (yínyǔ), meaning a prolonged and damaging rainy spell, and it carries a negative connotation of something overabundant or troublesome, such as “霪威” to describe an unrestrained display of power. The character is also used in Japanese as a kanji with similar meanings, though it is relatively rare in everyday writing. Historically, it reflects the cultural importance of weather phenomena in East Asian agrarian societies, where prolonged rain could threaten crops and livelihoods.

General Properties

Code Point U+972A
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 霪
HTML Hex Encoding 霪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x9C 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x972A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000972A
C/C++/Java Escape \u972a

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 C3F9
kCCCII 215F66
kCNS1986 1-7946
kCNS1992 1-7946
kCangjie MBEBG
kCantonese jam4
kCihaiT 1456.503
kDaeJaweon 1887.090
kDefinition long and heavy rain
kEACC 215F66
kFanqie 餘針
kFourCornerCode 1011.4
kGB0 8615
kGB1 8615
kHangul 음:1N
kHanYu 64075.250
kHanyuPinyin 64075.250:yín
kHKGlyph 4447
kIICore AGTH
kIRGDaeJaweon 1887.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64075.250
kIRGKangXi 1377.480
kIRG_GSource G0-762F
kIRG_HSource HB1-C3F9
kIRG_JSource J0-7046
kIRG_KPSource KP1-849C
kIRG_KSource K1-6A40
kIRG_TSource T1-7946
kIRG_VSource V0-4674
kJapanese イン
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:6378
kJapaneseOn IN
kJis0 8038
kKangXi 1377.480
kKarlgren 276
kKorean UM
kMainlandTelegraph 7214
kMandarin yín
kMatthews 7435
kMojiJoho MJ027850 MJ027850:E0101 MJ027851:E0102
kMorohashi 42430 42430:E0101
kPhonetic 1476A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7135+173.8.11
kRSUnicode 173.11
kSBGY 218.25
kSMSZD2003Index 762.01
kSMSZD2003Readings yín粵jam4
kTaiwanTelegraph 7214
kTGHZ2013 437.260:yín
kTotalStrokes 19
kUnihanCore2020 GHJMT
kVietnamese dầm
kXerox 272:375
kXHC1983 1378.010:yín