U+7816 "砖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7816 "砖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "brick" or "tile," often referencing building materials made from clay or other compounds that are fired in a kiln. In modern usage, it also appears in terms related to brick-like shapes or structures, as well as in figurative expressions such as "砖家" (zhuanjia), a playful or derogatory term for an alleged expert, playing on the homophone for "expert" (专家). The character is composed of the radical 石 (stone) on the left and 专 (specialized) on the right, reflecting both its material and phonetic components.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7816
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	砖
HTML Hex Encoding	砖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA0 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7816
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007816
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7816

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

kCCCII	274E53
kCangjie	MRQNI
kCantonese	zyun1
kDefinition	tile, brick
kEACC	274E53
kFourCornerCode	1563
kGB0	5509
kHanYu	42419.030
kHanyuPinlu	zhuān(44)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42419.030
kIRGKangXi	0828.241
kIRG_GSource	G0-5729
kTGH	2013:1447
kKangXi	0828.241
kMainlandTelegraph	4331
kMandarin	zhuān
kPhonetic	269*
kRSUnicode	112.4
kSMSZD2003Index	468.12
kTGHZ2013	486.130:zhuān
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"磚" U+78DA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1518.010:zhuān