U+7AC3 "竃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+7AC3 "竃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character and a component of the Japanese kanji that fundamentally means "stove," "oven," or "kitchen range," often referring to a place for cooking or a hearth. This ideograph is closely related in meaning to its more common variant "竈" and is used in contexts involving culinary infrastructure, such as in the term "竃の神" (kamado no kami), the Japanese kitchen god. While less frequently encountered in modern simplified Chinese, where it is often replaced by "灶," the character maintains its presence in classical texts, historical writings, and specific proper nouns, particularly in Japanese surnames and place names. Its structure combines the radical for "cave" or "hole" (穴) with components suggesting earth and construction, evoking the ancient image of a cooking pit or an earthen stove.

General Properties

Code Point U+7AC3
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 竃
HTML Hex Encoding 竃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xAB 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7AC3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007AC3
C/C++/Java Escape \u7ac3

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

kCangjie JCGWU
kCantonese hung1
kDaeJaweon 1298.240
kDefinition furnace; kitchen range
kEACC 4B4947
kFourCornerCode 3071.7
kHanYu 42742.041
kIICore AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon 1298.240
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42742.041
kIRGKangXi 0868.471
kIRG_GSource GE-4553
kIRG_HSource H-8E52
kIRG_JSource J0-3376
kJapanese ソウ かま かまど
kJapaneseKun KAMADO KAMA
kJapaneseOn SOU
kJis0 1986
kKangXi 0868.471
kMandarin zào
kMojiJoho MJ019298
kMorohashi H445
kNelson 3341
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+1492+116.5.12
kRSUnicode 116.12
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 HJ