U+697C "楼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
楼
U+697C "楼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "building" or "tower," often referring to multi-story structures such as apartments, office towers, or historical pavilions. Its simplified form is commonly used in modern Mandarin, while the traditional counterpart is "樓." The character appears in words like "大楼" (dàlóu, meaning "big building") and "楼梯" (lóutī, meaning "staircase"), and it is also found in place names and architectural contexts across East Asia. This ideograph reflects the cultural emphasis on vertical construction in Chinese cities and classical poetry, where it often evokes imagery of elevated spaces for viewing scenes or moon gazing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+697C |
| 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 | 楼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 楼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA5 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x697C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000697C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u697c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27454A |
| kCNS1986 | E-416A |
| kCNS1992 | 3-416A |
| kCangjie | DFDV |
| kCantonese | lau4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0930.190 |
| kDefinition | building of two or more stories |
| kEACC | 27454A |
| kFourCornerCode | 4994.4 |
| kGB0 | 3405 |
| kHanYu | 21255.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | lóu(179) |
| kIICore | AGJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0930.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21255.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0542.191 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4225 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4F30 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-4C42 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-3C24 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-416A |
| kJapanese | ロウ たかどの |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kTGH | 2013:2870 |
| kJapaneseKun | TAKADONO |
| kJapaneseOn | ROU |
| kJis0 | 4716 |
| kKangXi | 0542.191 |
| kKorean | LWU |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2869 |
| kMandarin | lóu |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014244 |
| kMorohashi | 15212 |
| kNelson | 2322 |
| kPhonetic | 780* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4054+75.4.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.9 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "楼" U+697C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 327.05 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 231.090:lóu |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "楼" U+697C CJK Unified Ideograph-# "樓" U+6A13 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GJ |
| kXHC1983 | 0734.010:lóu |