U+73BA "玺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

玺

U+73BA "玺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents a royal or imperial seal, often referred to as a "chop" in English. Historically, this character was reserved for seals belonging to emperors or high-ranking officials in East Asian cultures, particularly in China, where it symbolized authority and legitimacy in official documents. In modern usage, it appears in terms like "玉玺" (yùxǐ), meaning an imperial jade seal, and is also used in personal name seals or artistic contexts within calligraphy and engraving. Its visual composition combines the radical for "jade" (王 or 玉) with elements suggesting a tool or instrument, reflecting its original meaning of a carved, authoritative stamp.

General Properties

Code Point	U+73BA
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	玺
HTML Hex Encoding	玺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x8E 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x73BA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000073BA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u73ba

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	274B69
kCangjie	NFMGI
kCantonese	saai2
kDefinition	imperial signet, royal signet
kEACC	274B69
kFourCornerCode	2710
kGB0	7184
kHanYu	21109.090
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21109.090
kIRGKangXi	0729.040
kIRG_GSource	G0-6774
kIRG_HSource	H-8C53
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-017170
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-58E0
kIRG_TSource	T4-2E2A
kJapanese	ジしるし
kTGH	2013:4599
kKangXi	0729.040
kMainlandTelegraph	3886
kMandarin	xǐ
kMojiJoho	MJ017170 MJ017170:E0101 MJ017171:E0102
kMorohashi	20935 20935:E0101
kPhonetic	1547*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+13802+96.5.5
kRSUnicode	96.5
kSMSZD2003Index	426.07
kTGHZ2013	394.120:xǐ
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"璽" U+74BD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXHC1983	1235.050:xǐ