U+724D "牍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
牍
U+724D "牍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in Classical and Modern Chinese, where it refers to a writing tablet or a wooden document slip, historically used for official records or correspondence before the advent of paper. Its radical is 片 (pian4, meaning "slice" or "piece"), and it consists of 12 strokes, combining this radical with the phonetic component 卖 (mai4, meaning "sell") to form a logograph that conveys the concept of a flat, inscribed surface. In contemporary usage, "牍" appears in terms like 案牍 (andongdong), meaning official documents or paperwork, and 尺牍 (chidu), which refers to epistolary writing or a short personal letter, maintaining its historical association with written communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+724D |
| 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 | 牍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 牍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x89 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x724D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000724D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u724d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274A4C |
| kCangjie | LNJNK |
| kCantonese | duk6 |
| kDefinition | writing tablet; documents, books |
| kEACC | 274A4C |
| kFourCornerCode | 2408 |
| kGB0 | 7525 |
| kHanYu | 32016.240 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32016.240 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0693.391 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6B39 |
| kTGH | 2013:5211 |
| kKangXi | 0693.391 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3658 |
| kMandarin | dú |
| kPhonetic | 1395* |
| kRSUnicode | 91.8 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 410.04 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 080.170:dú |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "牘" U+7258 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0267.050:dú |