U+9742 "靂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
靂
U+9742 "靂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "thunderclap" or "lightning strike," often appearing in the compound "霹靂" (pī lì), which refers to a sudden, loud thunderbolt or a bolt of lightning, frequently used in classical literature and modern contexts to describe a shocking or startling event. This character belongs to the Kangxi radical 173 (雨, meaning "rain") and has a total of 24 strokes, with its structure indicating a connection to weather phenomena. Historically, it is used in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it retains similar connotations of a dramatic or violent natural occurrence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9742 |
| 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 | 靂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 靂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x9D 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9742 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009742 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9742 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C645 |
| kCCCII | 215F6E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7C70 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7C70 |
| kCangjie | MBMDM |
| kCantonese | lik1 |
| kCihaiT | 1459.601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1889.260 |
| kDefinition | thunderclap, crashing thunder |
| kEACC | 215F6E |
| kFanqie | 郎擊 |
| kFenn | 513I |
| kFennIndex | 299.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1021.1 |
| kGB1 | 8608 |
| kHangul | 력:0N |
| kHanYu | 64082.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64082.090:lì |
| kHKGlyph | 4455 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1889.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64082.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1380.150 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7628 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C645 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-704E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D8A3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-557A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7C70 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6B5D |
| kJapanese | レキ リャク |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseOn | REKI RYAKU |
| kJis0 | 8046 |
| kKangXi | 1380.150 |
| kKorean | LYEK |
| kMandarin | lì |
| kMatthews | 3936 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027876 |
| kMorohashi | 42523 |
| kNelson | 5073 |
| kPhonetic | 803 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7143+173.8.16 |
| kRSUnicode | 173.16 |
| kSBGY | 520.37 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "雳" U+96F3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 762.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lì粵lik1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7225 |
| kTang | lek |
| kTotalStrokes | 24 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | rích |
| kXerox | 264:250 |
| kXHC1983 | 0700.031:lì |