U+781A "砚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+781A "砚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily refers to an inkstone, a traditional stone slab used in East Asian calligraphy for grinding ink sticks against water to produce liquid ink. Composed of the radical "石" meaning stone and a phonetic component, this character embodies the cultural and historical significance of the inkstone as one of the Four Treasures of the Study, alongside the brush, ink, and paper. In modern usage, "砚" also appears in compound words like "砚台" (yàntái) for inkstone and is occasionally used in personal names or literary contexts to evoke scholarly or artistic refinement.

General Properties

Code Point	U+781A
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	砚
HTML Hex Encoding	砚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA0 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x781A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000781A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u781a

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	274E3B
kCangjie	MRBHU
kCantonese	jin6
kDefinition	inkstone
kEACC	274E3B
kFourCornerCode	1761
kGB0	4966
kHanYu	42420.070
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42420.070
kIRGKangXi	0828.241
kIRG_GSource	G0-5162
kTGH	2013:1453
kKangXi	0828.241
kMainlandTelegraph	4291
kMandarin	yàn
kRSUnicode	112.4
kSMSZD2003Index	468.13 470.16
kTGHZ2013	424.020:yàn
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"硯" U+786F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1332.110:yàn