U+72DE "狞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+72DE "狞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in modern and classical texts, primarily meaning "fierce," "ferocious," or "savage," often describing a malignant or terrifying expression, such as in the compound word "狰狞" (zhengning, meaning "grim" or "hideous"). It belongs to the radical "犭" (dog or beast radical) and is composed of 9 strokes, reflecting its association with wild or menacing animal behavior. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, which supports writing systems for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages, and it plays a role in conveying intensity or danger in descriptive language.