U+7A77 "穷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+7A77 "穷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means "poor," "exhausted," or "extreme," and it is composed of the radical for "cave" (穴) above the character for "power" or "strength" (力), symbolically suggesting a condition of being confined or reaching an end. In modern usage, it frequently appears in words like "贫穷" (poverty) and "无穷" (infinite), highlighting its dual connotations of material lack and conceptual limitlessness. The character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, covering scripts used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, and it carries significant cultural weight in East Asian literature and philosophy, often appearing in discussions of hardship, perseverance, and the boundless nature of certain phenomena.

General Properties

Code Point U+7A77
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 穷
HTML Hex Encoding 穷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xA9 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7A77
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007A77
C/C++/Java Escape \u7a77

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 226967
kCangjie JCKS
kCantonese kung4
kDefinition poor, destitute, impoverished
kEACC 274F5F
kFourCornerCode 3042
kGB0 3978
kHanYu 42719.030
kHanyuPinlu qióng(214)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42719.030
kIRGKangXi 0862.271
kIRG_GSource G0-476E
kIRG_JSource JMJ-019207
kJapanese キュウ グ きわめる
kTGH 2013:882
kKangXi 0862.271
kMainlandTelegraph 4522
kMandarin qióng
kMojiJoho MJ019207
kPhonetic 685A 801
kRSUnicode 116.2 19.5
kSimplifiedVariant "穷" U+7A77 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 66.10 489.15
kTGHZ2013 305.030:qióng
kTotalStrokes 7
kTraditionalVariant "穷" U+7A77 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
"窮" U+7AAE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0937.130:qióng