U+7136 "然" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

然

U+7136 "然" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that fundamentally conveys the meaning of "so," "thus," or "like this," and it also commonly appears as a suffix for adjectives and adverbs, as in "自然" (zìrán, meaning "nature" or "naturally") or "突然" (tūrán, meaning "suddenly"). Its composition combines the radical for fire (灬, a variant of 火) under the element "肙," which together originally signified something burning or being consumed, but the character evolved to express a sense of confirmation or state of being. In classical and modern written Chinese, "然" functions both as a standalone word and as a grammatical particle, appearing frequently in philosophical texts, such as the Dao De Jing, and in everyday vocabulary across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7136
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	然
HTML Hex Encoding	然
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x84 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7136
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007136
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7136

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	B54D
kCCCII	214965
kCNS1986	1-6053
kCNS1992	1-6053
kCangjie	BKF
kCantonese	jin4
kCihaiT	852.501
kCowles	1349
kDaeJaweon	1086.200
kDefinition	yes, certainly; pledge, promise
kEACC	214965
kFanqie	如延
kFenn	459A
kFennIndex	224.07
kFourCornerCode	2333.3
kGB0	4027
kGB1	4027
kGradeLevel	2
kGSR	0217a
kHangul	연:0E
kHanYu	32213.050
kHanyuPinlu	rán(3549) ran(84)
kHanyuPinyin	32213.050:rán
kHKGlyph	2399
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1086.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32213.050
kIRGKangXi	0675.120
kIRG_GSource	G0-483B
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B54D
kIRG_JSource	J0-4133
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F8EF
kIRG_KSource	K0-6654
kIRG_TSource	T1-6053
kIRG_VSource	V1-5E2C
kJapanese	ゼンネンしかしかしてしからばしかりしかるにしかれどももえる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:2723
kJapaneseKun	MOERU SHIKAREDOMO SHIKASHITE
kJapaneseOn	ZEN NEN
kJis0	3319
kKangXi	0675.120
kKorean	YEN
kLau	3472
kMainlandTelegraph	3544
kMandarin	rán
kMatthews	3072
kMeyerWempe	890
kMojiJoho	MJ016458 MJ016458:E0101 MJ057997:E0102
kMorohashi	19149 19149:E0101
kNelson	2770
kPhonetic	512 1579
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2741+86.4.8
kRSUnicode	86.8
kSBGY	137.23
kSMSZD2003Index	398.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	rán粵jin4
kTaiwanTelegraph	3544
kTang	*njiɛn
kTGHZ2013	312.020:rán
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	nhiên
kXerox	241:243
kXHC1983	0954.030:rán