U+7B3C "笼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
笼
U+7B3C "笼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means "cage" or "basket" and is composed of a bamboo radical on top with a phonetic component below, reflecting its original association with woven bamboo containers used for confining animals or carrying objects. In modern usage, it extends metaphorically to concepts of enclosure or confinement, appearing in compound words such as "笼子" meaning cage or "灯笼" meaning lantern, where it forms part of the word for a traditional paper lantern that encloses a light source. Its character structure and meanings illustrate how ancient material culture continues to inform contemporary Chinese vocabulary and symbolic thought.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7B3C |
| 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 | 笼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 笼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAC 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7B3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007B3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7b3c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275050 |
| kCangjie | HIKP |
| kCantonese | lung4 |
| kDefinition | cage; cage-like basket |
| kEACC | 275050 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8841 |
| kGB0 | 3393 |
| kHanYu | 52954.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | lóng(39) long(34) lǒng(23) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52954.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0881.251 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-417D |
| kTGH | 2013:2318 |
| kKangXi | 0881.251 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4705 |
| kMandarin | lóng |
| kPhonetic | 856* |
| kRSUnicode | 118.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 499.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 230.100:lóng 230.180:lǒng |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "籠" U+7C60 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0732.100:lóng 0733.020:lǒng |