U+973A "霺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
霺
U+973A "霺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that combines the rain radical (雨) on top with a phonetic component, often associated with meanings related to fine drizzle or a light, scattered rain. This character is not commonly used in modern Chinese writing, appearing primarily in classical or highly specialized texts, and it falls within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which represents East Asian script characters standardized for digital communication. Its composition reflects traditional logographic principles, where the rain radical hints at a weather-related concept, though its exact semantic usage has largely faded from contemporary vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+973A |
| 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 | 霺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 霺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9C 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x973A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000973A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u973a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F66F |
| kCCCII | 234C62 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6C5D |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6C5D |
| kCangjie | MBHOK |
| kCantonese | mei4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1889.010 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1024.8 |
| kHanYu | 64079.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64079.040:wéi |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1889.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64079.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1379.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-535F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F66F |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-027868 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-84AE |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6C50 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6C5D |
| kJapanese | ビ ミ |
| kKangXi | 1379.160 |
| kMandarin | wéi |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027868 |
| kMorohashi | 42492 |
| kRSUnicode | 173.13 |
| kTotalStrokes | 21 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |