U+7B17 "笗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+7B17 "笗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historical Chinese character that primarily appears in classical texts and specialized dictionaries rather than in modern everyday usage. Its structure combines the bamboo radical (⺮) with the character for winter (冬), suggesting meanings related to bamboo that endures or is associated with the winter season. In traditional contexts, this ideograph is often used to denote a type of bamboo or bamboo material that is hardy or suitable for cold weather, though its exact semantic range can vary across different historical sources. Due to its obscurity, it is not commonly found in contemporary digital communication but remains of interest to scholars of classical Chinese philology and paleography.

General Properties

Code Point U+7B17
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 笗
HTML Hex Encoding 笗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xAC 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7B17
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007B17
C/C++/Java Escape \u7b17

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 247533
kCNS1986 E-3779
kCNS1992 3-3779
kCangjie HHEY
kCantonese dung1
kFanqie 都宗
kGB5 6706
kHanYu 52958.110
kHanyuPinyin 52958.110:dōng
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 52958.110
kIRGKangXi 0879.260
kIRG_GSource G5-6326
kIRG_JSource JMJ-019396
kIRG_KSource K2-4F65
kIRG_TSource T3-3779
kJapanese トウ ツ
kKangXi 0879.260
kMandarin dōng
kMojiJoho MJ019396
kMorohashi 25910
kRSUnicode 118.5
kSBGY 032.34
kTotalStrokes 11