U+9F72 "齲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
齲
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
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 | qǔ |
| 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 |