U+7B46 "筆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+7B46 "筆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character meaning "pen," "brush," or "writing implement," and it is composed of the radical for bamboo (⺮) above the phonetic component 聿, which conveys the idea of holding a brush to write. This character is used across several East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese (where it is read as "fude" or "hitsu"), and Korean (where it is read as "pil"), and it appears in compound words such as 鉛筆 (qiānbǐ or enpitsu) meaning "pencil" and 筆記 (bǐjì or hikki) meaning "notes" or "written record." In classical Chinese culture, the writing brush was one of the Four Treasures of the Study, alongside ink, paper, and inkstone, and this character symbolizes the scholarly tradition of calligraphy and literature.

General Properties

Code Point U+7B46
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 筆
HTML Hex Encoding 筆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xAD 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7B46
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007B46
C/C++/Java Escape \u7b46

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

kBigFive B5A7
kCCCII 214F79
kCNS1986 1-612D
kCNS1992 1-612D
kCangjie HLQ
kCantonese bat1
kCihaiT 1011.202
kCowles 3237
kDaeJaweon 1310.270
kDefinition writing brush; write; stroke
kEACC 214F79
kFanqie 鄙密
kFenn 669A
kFennIndex 399.02
kFourCornerCode 8850.7
kGB1 1742
kGradeLevel 1
kGSR 0502d
kHangul 필:0E
kHanYu 52970.090
kHanyuPinlu bǐ(308)
kHanyuPinyin 52970.090:bǐ
kHKGlyph 2979
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1310.270
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 52970.090
kIRGKangXi 0882.190
kIRG_GSource G1-314A
kIRG_HSource HB1-B5A7
kIRG_JSource J0-492E
kIRG_KPSource KP0-F1FA
kIRG_KSource K0-7936
kIRG_TSource T1-612D
kIRG_VSource V1-616C
kJapanese ヒツ ヒチ ヘツ ヘチ ジョウ ニョウ ふで
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kJapaneseKun FUDE
kJapaneseOn HITSU
kJis0 4114
kKangXi 0882.190
kKorean PHIL
kLau 73
kMandarin
kMatthews 5130
kMeyerWempe 2293
kMojiJoho MJ019444
kMorohashi 25987
kNelson 3397
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3488+118.6.6 C+3488+129.6.6
kRSUnicode 118.6
kSBGY 472.41
kSemanticVariant U+7B14<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant "笔" U+7B14 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 499.08
kSMSZD2003Readings bǐ粵bat1
kTaiwanTelegraph 4581
kTang *byit
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kVietnamese bút
kXerox 244:130
kXHC1983 0055.021:bǐ