U+70AE "炮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

炮
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+70AE "炮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes a cannon or firearm, as well as the act of cooking by roasting or dry frying in a wok. Its radical, 火 (fire), suggests a connection to heat or flames, while the phonetic component 包 hints at its pronunciation in Mandarin as "pào". In traditional Chinese culture, this character appears in historical military contexts for artillery and in culinary terms like 炮肉 (pào ròu), meaning to stir fry meat, though in modern usage it is most commonly associated with weaponry and fireworks.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+70AE
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
炮
HTML Hex Encoding
炮
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE7 0x82 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding
0x70AE
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000070AE
C/C++/Java Escape
\u70ae

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
ACB6
kCCCII
214956
kCNS1986
1-5239
kCNS1992
1-5239
kCangjie
FPRU
kCantonese
paau3
kCihaiT
844.201
kCowles
3438
kDaeJaweon
1078.010
kDefinition
large gun, cannon; artillery
kEACC
214956
kFanqie
薄交 匹皃
kFenn
225F
kFennIndex
385.05 389.07 390.03
kFourCornerCode
9781.2
kGB0
3758
kGB1
3758
kGradeLevel
4
kGSR
1113g
kHangul
포:1N
kHanYu
32196.120
kHanyuPinlu
pào(182)
kHanyuPinyin
32196.120:páo,pào,bāo
kHKGlyph
2382
kIICore
AGTJHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
32196.120
kIRG_GSource
G0-455A
kIRG_HSource
HB1-ACB6
kIRG_JSource
J0-5F5C
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-54F9
kIRG_KSource
K1-723C
kIRG_TSource
T1-5239
kIRG_VSource
V1-5D7B
kJapanese
ホウ ビョウ ヒョウ あぶる
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:1658
kJapaneseKun
ABURU
kJapaneseOn
HOU
kJis0
6360
kKangXi
0668.250
kKorean
PHO
kLau
2459
kMainlandTelegraph
3517
kMandarin
pào
kMatthews
4966
kMeyerWempe
2255
kMojiJoho
MJ016335 MJ016335:E0101 MJ016336:E0102
kMorohashi
18954 18954:E0101
kNelson
2753
kPhonetic
1011
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+5559+86.4.5
kRSUnicode
86.5
kSBGY
154.22 416.17
kSemanticVariant
U+7832<kMeyerWempe U+70B0<kMatthews U+792E<kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index
394.06
kSMSZD2003Readings
páo粵paau4 bāo粵baau3 pào粵paau3
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+70B0<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph
3517
kTGHZ2013
012.050:bāo 277.030:páo 277.090:pào
kTotalStrokes
9
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kVietnamese
pháo
kXerox
315:255
kXHC1983
0037.010:bāo 0856.030:páo 0858.020:pào