U+7681 "皁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

皁

U+7681 "皁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally used to denote the color black, as well as substances like soap or black dye, and it also carries the meaning of low or base status, often appearing in classical texts and historical contexts. This character is an older variant form of the more common character "皂" (zào), which is widely used in modern Chinese for terms like "肥皂" (soap) and "皂角" (the soapberry pod). In its historical usage, "皁" references the physical blackness of dye or fabric, and by extension, it became associated with menial laborers, such as "皁隶" meaning a runner or servant in ancient bureaucratic systems. Its structure combines the radical for "white" (白) with a simplified or altered component, highlighting its evolution from earlier oracle bone and bronze script forms where it originally depicted a black bean or dye plant.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7681
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	皁
HTML Hex Encoding	皁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x9A 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7681
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007681
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7681

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	CB71
kCCCII	226046
kCNS1986	2-2471
kCNS1992	2-2471
kCangjie	HAJ
kCantonese	zou6
kCihaiT	735.201
kCowles	4595
kDaeJaweon	1201.050
kDefinition	black; police runners, from the black clothes formerly worn by them
kEACC	2D4D21
kFanqie	昨早
kFenn	795aF
kFennIndex	547.01
kFourCornerCode	2640.0
kGSR	1054b
kHangul	조:1N
kHanYu	42644.030
kHanyuPinyin	42644.030:zào
kIRGDaeJaweon	1201.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42644.030
kIRGKangXi	0786.020
kIRG_GSource	GE-434A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CB71
kIRG_JSource	J13-7860
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5CA4
kIRG_KSource	K1-6D25
kIRG_TSource	T2-2471
kJapanese	ソウゾウうまやくろいくろぎぬしもべくろ
kKoreanName	2015
kJIS0213	1,88,64
kJapaneseKun	SHIMOBE
kJapaneseOn	SOU ZOU
kJis1	4621
kKangXi	0786.020
kKorean	CO
kMandarin	zào
kMatthews	6722
kMeyerWempe	3412
kMojiJoho	MJ017988
kMorohashi	22684
kPhonetic	226
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+16989+24.2.5 C+16989+106.5.2
kRSUnicode	106.2
kSBGY	302.50
kSemanticVariant	U+7682<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index	454.01
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXHC1983	1443.071:zào