U+9F72 "齲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9F72 "齲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a dental cavity or decay, specifically the concept of a "carious tooth" or "tooth decay" in medical and everyday usage. It is composed of a radical related to teeth or bone structure combined with a phonetic component, and it is used in both traditional Chinese and Japanese Kanji writing systems. This character appears in contexts discussing oral health, dentistry, or corrosion, and it is recognized within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block of the Unicode standard, ensuring consistent digital representation across platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+9F72
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 齲
HTML Hex Encoding 齲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBD 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9F72
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009F72
C/C++/Java Escape \u9f72

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

kBigFive C654
kCCCII 21632A
kCNS1986 1-7D21
kCNS1992 1-7D21
kCangjie YUHLB
kCantonese geoi2
kCihaiT 1572.403
kDaeJaweon 2073.320
kDefinition tooth decay
kEACC 21632A
kFanqie 驅雨
kFourCornerCode 2272.7
kGB1 4003
kHangul 우:1N
kHanYu 74798.010
kHanyuPinyin 74798.010:qǔ
kHKGlyph 4756
kIICore ATJHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 2073.320
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74798.010
kIRGKangXi 1535.050
kIRG_GSource G1-4823
kIRG_HSource HB1-C654
kIRG_JSource J0-737A
kIRG_KPSource KP1-924E
kIRG_KSource K1-6941
kIRG_TSource T1-7D21
kJapanese ウ ク コ むしば
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun MUSHIBA
kJapaneseOn KU U
kJis0 8390
kKangXi 1535.050
kKorean WU
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ030109
kMorohashi 48716
kNelson 5439
kPhonetic 1614
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7469+211.15.9
kRSUnicode 211.9
kSBGY 263.27
kSimplifiedVariant "龋" U+9F8B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 832.12
kSMSZD2003Readings qǔ粵geoi2
kTaiwanTelegraph 7889
kTotalStrokes 24
kUnihanCore2020 HJMT
kXerox 276:311