U+7B39 "笹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

笹

U+7B39 "笹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji character used primarily in the Japanese writing system, where it denotes a type of bamboo known as "sasa" or dwarf bamboo. It is composed of the radical for bamboo (⺮) combined with the element meaning "world" or "generation" (世), visually reflecting a bamboo plant with layered leaves or branches. This character is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, where it is considered a variant of the character for bamboo (竹) or is recognized as a Japanese-specific kokuji (a character invented in Japan). In Japanese, it appears in place names, surnames, and compound words related to nature, such as "笹原" (sasahara), meaning a field of dwarf bamboo. The ideograph is classified under the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs block, encoded for interoperability across digital systems to represent this distinct East Asian symbol.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7B39
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	笹
HTML Hex Encoding	笹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xAC 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7B39
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007B39
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7b39

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	226B27
kCangjie	HPT
kCantonese	sai3
kDaeJaweon	1310.120
kDefinition	small bamboo
kEACC	226B27
kFourCornerCode	8871.7
kHangul	세:0N
kHanYu	52953.101
kIICore	AJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1310.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	52953.101
kIRGKangXi	0881.251
kIRG_GSource	GE-4573
kIRG_HSource	H-996A
kIRG_JSource	J0-3A7B
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E5FE
kIRG_KSource	K0-612B
kIRG_TSource	TF-374D
kJapanese	ささ
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	SASA
kJis0	2691
kKangXi	0881.251
kKorean	SEY
kMandarin	tì
kMojiJoho	MJ019434
kMorohashi	25968
kNelson	3384
kPhonetic	1115*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2155+118.6.5
kRSUnicode	118.5
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	HJKP
kXerox	320:333