U+9A72 "驲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9A72 "驲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents a post horse or a courier horse used in ancient times for relaying messages or transporting goods along official roads. It belongs to the radical for horse (馬) and is associated with the concept of swift travel or relay, historically tied to the imperial postal system where riders would swap horses at stations to maintain speed. This character is considered a variant or traditional form compared to its simplified counterpart and is used in classical texts and historical contexts rather than modern everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9A72
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	驲
HTML Hex Encoding	驲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA9 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9A72
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009A72
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9a72

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

kCangjie	NMA
kCantonese	jat6
kDefinition	post horse, relay horse
kFourCornerCode	7610.0
kGB8	9132
kHanYu	74543.161
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74543.161
kIRGKangXi	1447.241
kIRG_GSource	G8-7B40
kTGH	2013:6639
kKangXi	1447.241
kKorean	IL
kMainlandTelegraph	7462
kMandarin	rì
kPhonetic	1560*
kRSUnicode	187'.4
kTGHZ2013	315.040:rì
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"馹" U+99B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0967.010:rì