U+7B3E "笾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7B3E "笾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in Classical and literary contexts, referring to a type of bamboo vessel or basket, often employed in ancient rituals for holding offerings of grain or food. It belongs to the radical for bamboo (竹) and is composed of additional strokes that indicate its specific meaning and pronunciation, which in Mandarin is biān. This character is part of the larger CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block in Unicode, ensuring its representation across digital platforms for historical and scholarly texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7B3E
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	笾
HTML Hex Encoding	笾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xAC 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7B3E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007B3E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7b3e

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	286E68
kCangjie	HYKS
kCantonese	bin1
kDefinition	bamboo container for food
kEACC	286E68
kFourCornerCode	8830
kGB0	8354
kHanYu	52961.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	52961.010
kIRGKangXi	0884.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-7356
kTGH	2013:4902
kKangXi	0884.181
kMainlandTelegraph	4710
kMandarin	biān
kRSUnicode	118.5
kSMSZD2003Index	499.07
kTGHZ2013	020.160:biān
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"籩" U+7C69 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0064.020:biān