U+972D "霭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
霭
U+972D "霭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "mist" or "haze" and is often used in classical and modern Chinese literature to describe a thin, cloudy vapor or atmospheric obscurity, such as in the phrase "暮霭" (evening mist) or "烟霭" (smoky haze). It is composed of the "雨" (rain) radical on the top, indicating its connection to weather or atmospheric phenomena, and the phonetic component "谒" below, which suggests the character's pronunciation in Mandarin as "ǎi". This character conveys a gentle, poetic sense of obscurity or soft fog, frequently appearing in descriptive writing to evoke a serene or melancholic mood.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+972D |
| 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 | 霭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 霭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9C 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x972D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000972D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u972d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275F6D |
| kCangjie | MBIVV |
| kCantonese | oi2 |
| kDefinition | cloudy sky, haze; calm, peaceful |
| kEACC | 275F6D |
| kFourCornerCode | 1072 |
| kGB0 | 8616 |
| kHanYu | 64075.270 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64075.270 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1378.041 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7630 |
| kTGH | 2013:6379 |
| kKangXi | 1378.041 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7224 |
| kMandarin | ǎi |
| kRSUnicode | 173.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 762.02 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 002.110:ǎi |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "靄" U+9744 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0003.130:ǎi |