U+7938 "礸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

礸

U+7938 "礸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that falls under the Kangxi radical 112 for stone. Its pronunciation in Mandarin is roughly "zan" or "ca," and its primary meaning relates to the action of polishing or grinding a metal or stone surface to a fine sheen, often associated with the process of sharpening tools or smoothing gemstones. This character is extremely uncommon in modern Chinese texts and is found mostly in classical or highly specialized dictionaries, reflecting the depth of historical characters used in traditional craftsmanship. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that such a nuanced glyph is preserved for digital representation, though it remains an obscure entry in the CJK Unified Ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7938
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	礸
HTML Hex Encoding	礸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA4 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7938
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007938
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7938

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

kBigFive	F8B5
kCCCII	246D7B
kCNS1986	2-7043
kCNS1992	2-7043
kCangjie	MRHUC
kCantonese	caat3
kDaeJaweon	1256.180
kFourCornerCode	1468.6
kHanYu	42466.030
kIRGDaeJaweon	1256.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42466.030
kIRGKangXi	0839.120
kIRG_GSource	GE-445C
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F8B5
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-018745
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-610E
kIRG_KSource	K2-4D68
kIRG_TSource	T2-7043
kJapanese	サツサチ
kKangXi	0839.120
kMandarin	cǎ
kMojiJoho	MJ018745
kMorohashi	24613
kRSUnicode	112.19
kTotalStrokes	24
kUnihanCore2020	HMT