U+98B7 "颷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

颷

U+98B7 "颷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character used predominantly in traditional Chinese and Japanese writing systems, where it represents a variant form of the character meaning "whirlwind" or "violent wind." Its structure combines the radical for "wind" (风 or 風) with phonetic and semantic components, specifically incorporating elements like "fire" (火) in some interpretations, though its usage is rare in modern standard texts. In historical contexts, this character appears in classical literature and poetry to evoke the imagery of a powerful, spiraling storm, and it is sometimes associated with the concept of a tempest or tornado in East Asian cultural references. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to facilitate digital representation of diverse historical and regional scripts, ensuring that such nuanced glyphs remain accessible for scholarly and archival purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+98B7
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	颷
HTML Hex Encoding	颷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA2 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x98B7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000098B7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u98b7

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	256A24
kCNS1986	E-572A
kCNS1992	3-572A
kCangjie	HNFF
kCantonese	biu1
kDaeJaweon	1935.160
kDefinition	whirlwind
kGB5	4851
kHanYu	74487.100
kHanyuPinyin	74487.100:biāo
kIRGDaeJaweon	1935.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74487.100
kIRGKangXi	1413.240
kIRG_GSource	G5-5053
kIRG_HSource	H-9142
kIRG_JSource	J14-7C43
kIRG_KSource	K2-6D76
kIRG_TSource	T3-572A
kJapanese	ヒョウ
kJIS0213	2,92,35
kJapaneseKun	TSUMUJIKAZE
kJapaneseOn	HYOU
kJis1	7231
kKangXi	1413.240
kMandarin	biāo
kMojiJoho	MJ028310
kMorohashi	43881
kPhonetic	1568*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18945+182.9.8
kRSUnicode	182.8
kSimplifiedVariant	"𩙪" U+2966A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	H