U+7B53 "筓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

筓

U+7B53 "筓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of ancient hairpin or clasp used by women in traditional East Asian cultures to secure their hair, often made of bamboo, bone, or metal. This character carries historical and cultural significance, as it is associated with the coming of age ceremony for women in classical Chinese society, where it symbolized the transition from youth to adulthood. In modern usage, the character is relatively rare but can be found in literary or historical texts, and it belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, representing a shared heritage in East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7B53
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	筓
HTML Hex Encoding	筓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xAD 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7B53
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007B53
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7b53

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	2E6B25
kCNS1986	E-3D79
kCNS1992	3-3D79
kCangjie	HMJJ
kCantonese	gai1
kCihaiT	1013.501
kDaeJaweon	1312.110
kDefinition	a hairpin; fifteen-year-old girl
kFenn	34K
kFennIndex	33.02
kHangul	계:1
kHanYu	52961.070
kHanyuPinyin	52961.070:jī
kIRGDaeJaweon	1312.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	52961.070
kIRGKangXi	0883.120
kIRG_GSource	GE-4578
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-019460
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-63FC
kIRG_KSource	K1-5862
kIRG_TSource	T3-3D79
kJapanese	ケイこうがい
kKangXi	0883.120
kKarlgren	326
kKorean	KYEY
kMandarin	jī
kMatthews	407
kMojiJoho	MJ019460
kMorohashi	26005
kPhonetic	617
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14173+118.6.6
kRSUnicode	118.6
kSMSZD2003Index	500.09
kTaiwanTelegraph	4593
kTotalStrokes	12
kVietnamese	kê