U+7237 "爷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7237 "爷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes a paternal grandfather or an older male relative, and in broader usage it can also serve as a respectful term for an elderly man or a master figure in certain contexts. It is a simplified form of the traditional character 爺, which combines the semantic component 父 (father) with the phonetic component 耶, and is commonly used in everyday Chinese language, such as in the word 爷爷 (yéye) meaning "grandpa." This character represents a fundamental kinship term deeply embedded in Chinese family structure and cultural respect for elders.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7237
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	爷
HTML Hex Encoding	爷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x88 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7237
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007237
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7237

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	274A42
kCangjie	CKSL
kCantonese	je4
kDefinition	father, grandfather
kEACC	274A42
kFourCornerCode	8022
kGB0	5015
kHanYu	32039.020
kHanyuPinlu	ye(671) yé(281)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32039.020
kIRGKangXi	0690.011
kIRG_GSource	G0-522F
kTGH	2013:492
kKangXi	0690.011
kMainlandTelegraph	3639
kMandarin	yé
kRSUnicode	88.2
kSMSZD2003Index	407.16
kTGHZ2013	429.070:yé
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"爺" U+723A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1345.120:yé