U+7B0B "笋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
笋
U+7B0B "笋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "bamboo shoot." It is composed of the radical for bamboo (竹) at the top and a phonetic component below, reflecting its origin as a pictophonetic character. In both traditional and simplified Chinese, as well as in Japanese and Korean, "笋" refers to the tender, edible sprout of a bamboo plant, which is a common ingredient in East Asian cuisine. The character is also used in various compound words and idioms, often symbolizing growth, new beginnings, or the rapid development associated with bamboo shoots after spring rains.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7B0B |
| 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 | 笋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 笋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAC 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7B0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007B0B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7b0b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 226B24 |
| kCNS1986 | E-332B |
| kCNS1992 | 3-332B |
| kCangjie | HSK |
| kCantonese | seon2 |
| kCihaiT | 1008.604 |
| kCowles | 3740 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1306.320 |
| kDefinition | bamboo shoots |
| kEACC | 275021 |
| kFanqie | 思尹 |
| kFenn | 677H |
| kFennIndex | 478.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8850.7 |
| kGB0 | 4381 |
| kGB1 | 4381 |
| kHanYu | 52952.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 52952.110:sǔn |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1306.320 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52952.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0878.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4B71 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8E5C |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6424 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-63BF |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-4F60 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-332B |
| kJapanese | ジュン たけのこ |
| kTGH | 2013:1953 |
| kJapaneseKun | TAKENOKO |
| kJapaneseOn | JUN SHUN |
| kJis0 | 6804 |
| kKangXi | 0878.210 |
| kKarlgren | 272 |
| kKorean | SWUN |
| kLau | 2961 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4571 |
| kMandarin | sǔn |
| kMatthews | 5547 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2883 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019385 |
| kMorohashi | 25873 |
| kNelson | 3370 3390 |
| kPhonetic | 1443 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5973+118.6.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.4 |
| kSBGY | 277.37 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7B4D<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "笋" U+7B0B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 497.14 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4571 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 353.100:sǔn |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "笋" U+7B0B CJK Unified Ideograph-# "筍" U+7B4D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJ |
| kXerox | 323:275 |
| kXHC1983 | 1102.010:sǔn |