U+7A08 "稈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
稈
U+7A08 "稈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that primarily means "straw" or "stalk," specifically referring to the hollow stem of grain plants like rice or wheat. It is composed of the radical 禾 (grain) on the left, indicating its agricultural association, and the phonetic component 旱 (hàn) on the right. This character is used in traditional and simplified Chinese, as well as in Japanese Kanji, where it appears in words like 稈長 (stalk length) in botany or farming contexts. Its reading in Mandarin Chinese is gǎn, while in Japanese it is typically read as かん (kan) in on'yomi.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7A08 |
| 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 | 稈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 稈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA8 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7A08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007A08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7a08 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B57A |
| kCCCII | 214F34 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6122 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6122 |
| kCangjie | HDAMJ |
| kCantonese | gon2 |
| kCihaiT | 993.204 |
| kCowles | 1767 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1278.160 |
| kDefinition | stalk of grain; straw |
| kEACC | 214F34 |
| kFanqie | 古旱 |
| kFenn | 33H |
| kFennIndex | 238.10 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2694.1 |
| kHangul | 간:0N |
| kHanYu | 42607.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gǎn(12) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42607.010:gǎn |
| kHKGlyph | 2908 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1278.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42607.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0854.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-452B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B57A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6343 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDD9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A59 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6122 |
| kJapanese | カン わら |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | WARA |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN |
| kJis0 | 6735 |
| kKangXi | 0854.030 |
| kKarlgren | 61 |
| kKorean | KAN |
| kMandarin | gǎn |
| kMatthews | 3220 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1235 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019070 |
| kMorohashi | 25074 |
| kNelson | 3283 |
| kPhonetic | 502 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5910+115.5.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 115.7 |
| kSBGY | 284.35 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+79C6<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "秆" U+79C6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 485.20 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gǎn粵gon2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4452 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 263:100 |
| kXHC1983 | 0357.021:gǎn |