U+7AF2 "竲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+7AF2 "竲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that historically carries the meaning of "to climb" or "to ascend," often implying a sense of rising or scaling upward. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is composed of the radical for bamboo, which suggests a connection to tall or structural elements, combined with additional strokes that convey the action of mounting or elevating. In classical texts, it appears infrequently, primarily in literary or poetic contexts, and is not commonly employed in modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean writing systems, making it a more esoteric character even among those familiar with the full CJK repertoire. Its pronunciation in Mandarin is approximately "zēng," though its usage remains largely obsolete outside of specialized lexicons.

General Properties

Code Point U+7AF2
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 竲
HTML Hex Encoding 竲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xAB 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7AF2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007AF2
C/C++/Java Escape \u7af2

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 226A71
kCNS1986 E-5569
kCNS1992 3-5569
kCangjie YTCWA
kCantonese cang4
kDaeJaweon 1304.090
kFanqie 疾陵 作滕
kGB5 6215
kHanYu 42716.070
kHanyuPinyin 42716.070:céng
kIRGDaeJaweon 1304.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42716.070
kIRGKangXi 0873.080
kIRG_GSource G5-5E2F
kIRG_JSource JMJ-019357
kIRG_KPSource KP1-63A0
kIRG_TSource T3-5569
kJapanese ショウ ジョウ ソウ
kKangXi 0873.080
kMandarin céng
kMojiJoho MJ019357
kMorohashi 25816
kRSUnicode 117.12
kSBGY 200.19 201.26
kTotalStrokes 17