U+697D "楽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

楽

U+697D "楽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) and Japanese kanji that primarily means "music," "comfort," or "ease," with its core semantic concept revolving around pleasure and enjoyment. In Chinese, it is pronounced *lè* or *yuè*, where *yuè* specifically denotes music and *lè* signifies happiness or delight, while in Japanese it is read as *raku* or *gaku*, carrying similar meanings of comfort, ease, or music. Historically, it appears in important cultural terms such as the Chinese concept of "快乐" (kuàilè meaning happiness) and the Japanese "楽しい" (tanoshii meaning fun), reflecting its broad utility across East Asian languages. The character is classified under the Kangxi radical 木 (wood) and contains 13 strokes, with its traditional form being 樂, from which the simplified and Japanese shinjitai form "楽" derives.

General Properties

Code Point	U+697D
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	楽
HTML Hex Encoding	楽
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xA5 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x697D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000697D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u697d

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

kCCCII	2D454E
kCNS1986	E-417B
kCNS1992	3-417B
kCangjie	XIOD
kCantonese	lok6
kDaeJaweon	0930.200
kDefinition	happy, glad; enjoyable; music
kEACC	2D454E
kFourCornerCode	3290.4
kHanYu	80020.140
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0930.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	80020.140
kIRGKangXi	0542.191
kIRG_GSource	GE-3D4F
kIRG_JSource	J0-335A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4C40
kIRG_KSource	K2-3C25
kIRG_MSource	MD-697D
kIRG_TSource	T3-417B
kJapanese	ガクラクゴウギョウたのしいたのしむこのむ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	TANOSHII TANOSHIMU KONOMU
kJapaneseOn	GAKU RAKU
kJis0	1958
kKangXi	0542.191
kMandarin	lè
kMojiJoho	MJ014245
kMorohashi	15213
kNelson	2324
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1464+75.4.9
kRSUnicode	75.9
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	J