U+7B11 "笑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
笑
U+7B11 "笑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents "laugh," "smile," or "laughter" and is composed of the radical for bamboo (⺮) above the character for "yawn" or "to show the teeth" (夭), symbolizing the image of bamboo swaying or a person laughing heartily. Widely used across East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, it appears in common words like the Japanese "warau" or Chinese "xiào," and features in idioms such as "笑里藏刀" meaning "a smile hides a dagger." Its stroke order follows standard CJK writing conventions, typically written with 10 strokes in simplified Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7B11 |
| 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 | 笑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 笑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAC 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7B11 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007B11 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7b11 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AFBA |
| kCCCII | 214F71 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-573D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-573D |
| kCangjie | HHK |
| kCantonese | siu3 |
| kCihaiT | 1008.502 |
| kCowles | 3675 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1307.050 |
| kDefinition | smile, laugh, giggle; snicker |
| kEACC | 214F71 |
| kFenn | 463A |
| kFennIndex | 172.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8843.2 |
| kGB0 | 4806 |
| kGB1 | 4806 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1150a |
| kHangul | 소:0E |
| kHanYu | 52950.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xiào(1403) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 52950.100:xiào |
| kHKGlyph | 2969 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1307.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52950.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0879.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5026 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AFBA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3E50 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E3B2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6145 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-573D |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8E4E |
| kJapanese | ショウ わらう えむ わらい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1952 |
| kJapaneseKun | WARAU EMU WARAI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 3048 |
| kKangXi | 0879.030 |
| kKarlgren | 216 |
| kKorean | SO |
| kLau | 2859 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4562 |
| kMandarin | xiào |
| kMatthews | 2615 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2830 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019391 MJ019391:E0101 MJ060016:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 25885 25885:E0101 |
| kNelson | 3374 |
| kPhonetic | 1594 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2488+118.6.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.4 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+54B2<kFenn |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 497.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiào粵siu3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4562 |
| kTang | *siɛ̀u |
| kTGHZ2013 | 404.080:xiào |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 242:360 |
| kXHC1983 | 1272.040:xiào |