U+7682 "皂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
皂
U+7682 "皂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to the black color, particularly the deep black dye derived from the soapberry plant, and by extension it came to mean "soap" in modern Chinese, as in 肥皂 (feizao). It also carries meanings related to "clean" or "wash," and in traditional contexts it was used to denote a type of low-ranking servant or stable hand, as seen in the term 皂隶 (zaoli). The character consists of the radical 白 (white) above a modified form of 七 (seven), though its ancient form depicted a tree bearing fruit used for washing, reflecting its practical and linguistic evolution in Chinese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7682 |
| 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 | 皂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 皂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x9A 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7682 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007682 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7682 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A86D |
| kCCCII | 214D21 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4B30 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4B30 |
| kCangjie | HAP |
| kCantonese | zou6 |
| kCihaiT | 735.303 |
| kCowles | 4596 |
| kDefinition | soap; black; menial servant |
| kEACC | 214D21 |
| kFanqie | 昨早 |
| kFennIndex | 547.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2671.1 |
| kGB0 | 5277 |
| kGB1 | 5277 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 1054a |
| kHanYu | 42644.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zào(38) |
| kHKGlyph | 2701 |
| kIBMJapan | FB70 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42644.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0786.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-546D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A86D |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-017989 |
| kIRG_KSource | K6-102D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4B30 |
| kJapanese | ソウ くろ |
| kTGH | 2013:787 |
| kKangXi | 0786.030 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4103 |
| kMandarin | zào |
| kMatthews | 6722 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3412 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ017989 MJ017989:E0101 MJ017990:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 22685 22685:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 226 465 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+8566+106.5.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 106.2 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7681<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 453.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zào粵zou6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4103 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 459.080:zào |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXHC1983 | 1443.070:zào |