U+77CB "矋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+77CB "矋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that represents the meaning "to look at" or "to gaze," specifically with connotations of peering or staring intently, though its usage is extremely uncommon in modern Chinese. Classified as part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, this character is composed of a radical related to sight or eyes combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its etymological structure common to many logograms in the script. Due to its obscurity, it is rarely encountered in standard texts, including literature or digital communication, and is primarily of interest to linguists, paleographers, or specialists in historical Chinese script variations. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent encoding across digital platforms, allowing for preservation and study of this ancient character.

General Properties

Code Point U+77CB
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 矋
HTML Hex Encoding 矋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x9F 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x77CB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000077CB
C/C++/Java Escape \u77cb

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

kCangjie BUMTB
kCantonese lai6
kCheungBauer 109/15;BUMTB;lai3,lai6
kCheungBauerIndex 446.03
kCowles 2209
kDefinition (Cant.) to stare angrily
kHanYu 42519.141
kIICore CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42519.141
kIRGKangXi 0820.231
kIRG_GSource GH-1277
kIRG_HSource H-98EF
kKangXi 0820.231
kMandarin lěi
kMeyerWempe 1467
kPseudoGB1 9238
kRSUnicode 109.15
kSemanticVariant U+77D6<kMeyerWempe
kTotalStrokes 19
kUnihanCore2020 H