U+9736 "霶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9736 "霶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a relatively rare and complex Chinese character that primarily refers to a torrential downpour or a heavy, flowing rain, often evoking imagery of rain falling in sheets or cascading water. Its structure combines the "rain" radical (雨) with the phonetic component "滂", which itself signifies a great flood or a surging, overflowing expanse of water, thereby extending the character's meaning to encompass not only abundant rainfall but also the general sense of vastness or profusion, such as in the literary term "霶霈" to describe a spectacular and overwhelming deluge. While not commonly used in modern everyday Chinese, it appears in classical texts and poetry to vividly depict the power and intensity of rainstorms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9736
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	霶
HTML Hex Encoding	霶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9C 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9736
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009736
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9736

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

kCCCII	234C5C
kCNS1986	E-5E72
kCNS1992	3-5E72
kCangjie	MBEYS
kCantonese	pong4
kCihaiT	1458.101
kDaeJaweon	1888.220
kDefinition	downpouring of rain
kEACC	234C5C
kFanqie	普郎
kGB5	8380
kHanYu	64080.010
kHanyuPinyin	64080.010:pāng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1888.220
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64080.010
kIRGKangXi	1379.100
kIRG_GSource	G5-7370
kIRG_HSource	H-90D4
kIRG_JSource	J4-7B79
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-84B0
kIRG_KSource	K2-6C4F
kIRG_TSource	T3-5E72
kJapanese	ホウ
kJIS0213	2,91,89
kKangXi	1379.100
kMandarin	pāng
kMeyerWempe	2472e
kMojiJoho	MJ027863 MJ027863:E0101 MJ027864:E0102
kMorohashi	42487 42487:E0101
kPhonetic	1081A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18911+173.8.13
kRSUnicode	173.13
kSBGY	182.16
kSemanticVariant	U+96F1<kMeyerWempe
kTaiwanTelegraph	7217
kTotalStrokes	21
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	307:330
kXHC1983	0853.112:pāng