U+7B16 "笖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
笖
U+7B16 "笖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character that falls under the "CJK Unified Ideographs" block, which encodes logographic characters used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. Its precise meaning is obscure and not commonly found in modern dictionaries, but it is structurally composed of the bamboo radical "⺮" on top, suggesting a possible connection to bamboo objects or tools, with the phonetic component "以" below hinting at its pronunciation, likely resembling "yǐ" in Mandarin. This character is not part of standard usage in contemporary texts and is mainly of interest to paleographers or Unicode historians studying historical script variations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7B16 |
| 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 | 笖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 笖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAC 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7B16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007B16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7b16 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 247528 |
| kCNS1986 | E-3778 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3778 |
| kCangjie | XHVIO |
| kCantonese | ji5 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1307.170 |
| kGB3 | 6751 |
| kHanYu | 52953.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 52953.010:yǐ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1307.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52953.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0879.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6353 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-019395 |
| kIRG_MSource | MD-7B16 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3778 |
| kJapanese | イ スイ |
| kKangXi | 0879.210 |
| kMandarin | yǐ |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019395 |
| kMorohashi | 25905 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.5 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |