U+7A9F "窟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
窟
U+7A9F "窟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "cave," "den," or "hole," and is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is formed as a radical-phonetic compound, with the "cave" radical (穴) on top suggesting its meaning related to hollow spaces, while the bottom component provides phonetic guidance. This character appears in words like "石窟" for "grotto" or "cave temple" and "窟窿" for "hole" or "cavity," and it carries cultural connotations in contexts such as Buddhist cave art or mythical dens.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7A9F |
| 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 | 窟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 窟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAA 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7A9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007A9F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7a9f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B85D |
| kCCCII | 214F5A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6564 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6564 |
| kCangjie | JCSUU |
| kCantonese | fat1 |
| kCihaiT | 1000.306 |
| kCowles | 729 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1294.320 |
| kDefinition | hole, cave; cellar; underground |
| kEACC | 214F5A |
| kFanqie | 苦骨 |
| kFenn | 666F |
| kFennIndex | 262.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3027.2 |
| kGB0 | 3163 |
| kGB1 | 3163 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kGSR | 0496q |
| kHangul | 굴:0N |
| kHanYu | 42734.140 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kū(26) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42734.140:kū |
| kHKGlyph | 2946 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1294.320 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42734.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0866.330 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F5F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B85D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3722 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D1C7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4F5F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6564 |
| kJapanese | クツ コツ クチ いわや |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3028 |
| kJapaneseKun | IWAYA |
| kJapaneseOn | KUTSU KOTSU |
| kJis0 | 2302 |
| kKangXi | 0866.330 |
| kKarlgren | 493 |
| kKorean | KWUL |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4516 |
| kMandarin | kū |
| kMatthews | 3503 |
| kMeyerWempe | 496 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019255 |
| kMorohashi | 25552 |
| kNelson | 3331 |
| kPhonetic | 1449 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1784+116.5.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 116.8 |
| kSBGY | 481.60 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 491.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kū粵fat1,gwat6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4516 |
| kTang | *kuət |
| kTGHZ2013 | 199.110:kū |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 263:043 |
| kXHC1983 | 0653.010:kū |