U+7AF3 "竳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7AF3 "竳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character that appears in classical texts and historical dictionaries, but is not commonly used in modern Mandarin or Japanese. Its structure combines the radical for "bamboo" (竹) with a phonetic component, and it is generally understood to refer to a type of bamboo or a bamboo implement, though its exact meaning and usage remain ambiguous in contemporary contexts. This character is primarily of interest to scholars of historical Chinese script and those studying obscure or variant characters in the CJK Unified Ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7AF3
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	竳
HTML Hex Encoding	竳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xAB 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7AF3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007AF3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7af3

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	226A72
kCNS1986	E-556A
kCNS1992	3-556A
kCangjie	YTNOT
kCantonese	dang1
kDaeJaweon	1304.100
kGB3	6351
kHanYu	42716.100
kHanyuPinyin	42716.100:dēng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1304.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42716.100
kIRGKangXi	0873.090
kIRG_GSource	G3-5F53
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-019359
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-639E
kIRG_TSource	T3-556A
kJapanese	トウ
kKangXi	0873.090
kMandarin	dēng
kMojiJoho	MJ019359
kMorohashi	25817
kPhonetic	1315*
kRSUnicode	117.12
kTotalStrokes	17