U+741E "琞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+741E "琞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an ancient and rare Chinese character that has been encoded in Unicode's CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, though its specific meaning and usage remain largely obscure and debated among scholars. This character appears to be a variant or archaic form of another character, with some sources suggesting it may relate to the concept of jade or a type of precious stone, given its semantic radical "王" (often associated with jade and gems). However, due to its extreme rarity in classical texts and lack of definitive attestation in modern dictionaries, the character serves primarily as a historical and typographical curiosity within the extensive CJK repertoire, illustrating the challenges of encoding ancient or localized glyphs in digital standards.

General Properties

Code Point U+741E
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 琞
HTML Hex Encoding 琞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x90 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x741E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000741E
C/C++/Java Escape \u741e

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

kCNS1986 E-426D
kCNS1992 3-426D
kCangjie ABMGI
kCantonese sing3
kHanYu 21125.010
kHanyuPinyin 21125.010:shèng,wàng
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21125.010
kIRGKangXi 0734.140
kIRG_GSource GE-4241
kIRG_HSource H-98C9
kIRG_JSource JMJ-017278
kIRG_TSource T3-426D
kJapanese セイ
kKangXi 0734.140
kMandarin shèng
kMojiJoho MJ017278
kMorohashi 21053
kRSUnicode 96.9
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 H