U+7B3A "笺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
笺
U+7B3A "笺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of writing paper or a note, often used for comments, annotations, or brief messages. Historically, it denotes a small, slender bamboo slip used for writing in ancient China, and in modern contexts it appears in compound words like "信笺" (letter paper) or "便笺" (memo pad). The character combines the "bamboo" radical (⺮) reflecting its material origin with the phonetic component indicating pronunciation, and it is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese to signify a document for informal correspondence or marginal notes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7B3A |
| 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 | 笺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 笺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAC 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7B3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007B3A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7b3a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27502B |
| kCangjie | HIJ |
| kCantonese | zin1 |
| kDefinition | note, memo; stationery; comments |
| kEACC | 27502B |
| kFourCornerCode | 8850 |
| kGB0 | 2867 |
| kHanYu | 52953.030 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52953.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0881.251 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3C63 |
| kTGH | 2013:4893 |
| kKangXi | 0881.251 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4608 |
| kMandarin | jiān |
| kPhonetic | 185* |
| kRSUnicode | 118.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 499.05 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 163.090:jiān |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "箋" U+7B8B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0547.050:jiān |