U+71ED "燭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+71ED "燭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "candle" or "to illuminate," historically representing a torch or a light source made from wax or tallow. It belongs to the fire radical (火) and is composed of 17 strokes, often used in classical texts and modern contexts to convey brightness, guidance, or illumination, such as in the phrase "蠟燭" (làzhú) for candle. This character encodes a concept central to traditional lighting and symbolic clarity in Chinese culture.
General Properties
Code Point
U+71ED
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
燭
HTML Hex Encoding
燭
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE7 0x87 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding
0x71ED
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000071ED
C/C++/Java Escape
\u71ed
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
C0EB
kCCCII
214A30
kCNS1986
1-7436
kCNS1992
1-7436
kCangjie
FWLI
kCantonese
zuk1
kCihaiT
861.402
kCowles
366
kDaeJaweon
1098.030
kDefinition
candle, taper; to shine, illuminate
kEACC
214A30
kFanqie
之欲
kFenn
788E
kFennIndex
94.05
kFourCornerCode
9682.7
kGB1
5482
kGradeLevel
3
kGSR
1224e
kHangul
촉:0E
kHanYu
32241.020
kHanyuPinlu
zhú(53)
kHanyuPinyin
32241.020:zhú,kuò
kHKGlyph
2439
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
32241.020
kIRG_GSource
G1-5672
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C0EB
kIRG_JSource
J0-3F24
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-EDFE
kIRG_KSource
K0-7537
kIRG_TSource
T1-7436
kIRG_VSource
V1-5E43
kJapanese
ショク ソク シュ ともしび
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kJapaneseKun
TOMOSHIBI
kJapaneseOn
SHOKU SOKU
kJis0
3104
kKangXi
0685.110
kKorean
CHOK
kLau
1601
kMandarin
zhú
kMatthews
1385
kMeyerWempe
397
kMojiJoho
MJ016663
kMorohashi
19480
kNelson
2811
kPhonetic
1264
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2538+86.4.13
kRSUnicode
86.13
kSBGY
461.05
kSemanticVariant
U+70DB<kLau,kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
405.01
kSMSZD2003Readings
zhú粵zuk1
kTaiwanTelegraph
3608
kTang
*jiok
kTotalStrokes
17
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
đuốc
kXerox
252:264
kXHC1983
1508.071:zhú