U+7A20 "稠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+7A20 "稠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys meanings related to density, thickness, or closeness, often used to describe liquids that are thick or concentrated, such as congee or soup, as well as populations that are dense or crowded. It is composed of the radical for grain or rice, which provides a hint about its agricultural or substance-based origins, and a phonetic component that influences pronunciation, with its standard Mandarin reading being "chóu." This character appears in various contexts, from everyday cooking terminology to literary descriptions of closely packed objects or groups, and it holds a place in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, where it is encoded for consistent digital representation across platforms and languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+7A20
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 稠
HTML Hex Encoding 稠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xA8 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7A20
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007A20
C/C++/Java Escape \u7a20

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 B859
kCCCII 214F39
kCNS1986 1-6560
kCNS1992 1-6560
kCangjie HDBGR
kCantonese cau4
kCihaiT 993.403
kCowles 481
kDaeJaweon 1280.230
kDefinition dense, crowded, packed; soupy
kEACC 214F39
kFanqie 直由
kFenn 730D
kFennIndex 92.03
kFourCornerCode 2792.0
kGB0 1977
kGB1 1977
kGSR 1083l
kHangul 조:0N
kHanYu 42614.100
kHanyuPinlu chóu(8)
kHanyuPinyin 42614.100:chóu,tiáo,diào
kHKGlyph 2914
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1280.230
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42614.100
kIRGKangXi 0855.190
kIRG_GSource G0-336D
kIRG_HSource HB1-B859
kIRG_JSource J0-6347
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E9AD
kIRG_KSource K0-7056
kIRG_TSource T1-6560
kJapanese チュウ チョウ ジュ ジョウ おおい
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:2949
kJapaneseKun SHIGERU OOI
kJapaneseOn CHUU CHOU
kJis0 6739
kKangXi 0855.190
kKorean CO CWU
kMainlandTelegraph 4464
kMandarin chóu
kMatthews 1317
kMeyerWempe 185
kMojiJoho MJ019099 MJ019099:E0101 MJ019100:E0102
kMorohashi 25130 25130:E0101
kNelson 3289
kPhonetic 80
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+5914+115.5.8
kRSUnicode 115.8
kSBGY 209.45
kSMSZD2003Index 486.14
kSMSZD2003Readings chóu粵cau4
kTaiwanTelegraph 4464
kTang djhiou
kTGHZ2013 048.130:chóu
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kXerox 260:141
kXHC1983 0153.050:chóu