U+7B57 "筗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
筗
U+7B57 "筗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, representing a logographic symbol used in East Asian writing systems. Its structure combines the bamboo radical (竹) with a phonetic component, suggesting it may refer to a type of bamboo or a bamboo-related object, though its exact meaning and usage are obscure and not commonly found in modern standard texts or dictionaries. The character is primarily of interest to scholars of historical scripts or Unicode enthusiasts, as it appears in extended character sets rather than everyday language, highlighting the vast repository of seldom-used ideographs included in Unicode for completeness.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7B57 |
| 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 | 筗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 筗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAD 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7B57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007B57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7b57 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 247553 |
| kCNS1986 | E-3D76 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3D76 |
| kCangjie | HOL |
| kCantonese | zung6 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1313.020 |
| kGB5 | 6719 |
| kHanYu | 52967.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 52967.040:zhòng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1313.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52967.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0884.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-6333 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-019465 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-4F7C |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3D76 |
| kJapanese | チュウ ジュ |
| kKangXi | 0884.060 |
| kMandarin | zhòng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019465 |
| kMorohashi | 26014 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.6 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |