U+7877 "硷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
硷
U+7877 "硷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily serves as a simplified variant of the character 鹼, meaning alkali or base in the chemical sense. It is composed of the radical 石 (stone) on the left and the phonetic component 佥 on the right, reflecting its connection to mineral substances. In modern usage, it appears in terms related to chemistry, such as in the word for alkaline, and is distinguished from its traditional counterpart by a simplified stroke count. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode standard, allowing for digital representation across various systems and languages that use Chinese script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7877 |
| 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 | 硷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 硷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA1 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7877 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007877 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7877 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276252 |
| kCangjie | MROMM |
| kCantonese | gaan2 |
| kDefinition | alkaline, alkali, lye, salt |
| kEACC | 276252 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1861 |
| kGB0 | 2879 |
| kHanYu | 42434.060 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42434.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0831.131 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3C6F |
| kKangXi | 0831.131 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 8969 |
| kMandarin | jiǎn |
| kPhonetic | 182* |
| kRSUnicode | 112.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 471.12 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "礆" U+7906 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "鹼" U+9E7C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0553.070:jiǎn |