U+7403 "球" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

球

U+7403 "球" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character pronounced as "qiú" in Mandarin, which primarily means "ball" or "sphere" and is widely used to refer to spherical objects or globes. It is a common kanji in Japanese and a hanja in Korean, carrying similar meanings of roundness or a ball-shaped item. The character is formed from the radical "王" (jade) on the left, combined with "求" (to seek or demand) on the right, which together create a semantic-phonetic compound indicating a precious or valuable round object. In modern usage, "球" appears in words for sports (e.g., "足球" for soccer, "篮球" for basketball), celestial bodies (e.g., "月球" for the moon), and even in informal contexts like "球赛" for a ball game. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, encoding a shared core of East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7403
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	球
HTML Hex Encoding	球
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x90 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7403
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007403
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7403

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	B279
kCCCII	214B45
kCNS1986	1-5B7E
kCNS1992	1-5B7E
kCangjie	MGIJE
kCantonese	kau4
kCihaiT	894.602
kCowles	1938
kDaeJaweon	1144.060
kDefinition	ball, sphere, globe; round
kEACC	214B45
kFanqie	巨鳩
kFenn	524B
kFennIndex	86.11
kFourCornerCode	1313.2
kGB0	3982
kGB1	3982
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	1066f
kHangul	구:0E
kHanYu	21114.150
kHanyuPinlu	qiú(458)
kHanyuPinyin	21114.150:qiú
kHKGlyph	2553
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1144.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21114.150
kIRGKangXi	0732.290
kIRG_GSource	G0-4772
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B279
kIRG_JSource	J0-3565
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D1A1
kIRG_KSource	K0-4F39
kIRG_TSource	T1-5B7E
kIRG_VSource	V1-5F2A
kJapanese	キュウグたま
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:2155
kJapaneseKun	TAMA
kJapaneseOn	KYUU GU
kJis0	2169
kKangXi	0732.290
kKarlgren	407
kKorean	KWU
kMainlandTelegraph	3808
kMandarin	qiú
kMatthews	1221
kMeyerWempe	1084
kMojiJoho	MJ017253
kMorohashi	21011
kNelson	2941
kPhonetic	592
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1663+96.4.7
kRSUnicode	96.7
kSBGY	210.24
kSMSZD2003Index	427.11
kSMSZD2003Readings	qiú粵kau4
kTaiwanTelegraph	3808
kTGHZ2013	306.120:qiú
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	cầu
kXerox	242:351
kXHC1983	0940.030:qiú