U+7B59 "筙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7B59 "筙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in classical and historical texts, classified under the Kangxi radical 118 for bamboo. Its structure combines a bamboo radical component with a phonetic element, though its precise meaning and modern usage are obscure, as it appears in only a few ancient sources or dictionaries. The character is rarely encountered in contemporary writing, primarily serving as a representation of archaic or specialized vocabulary within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7B59
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	筙
HTML Hex Encoding	筙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xAD 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7B59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007B59
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7b59

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	2E6C3E
kCNS1986	E-657E
kCNS1992	3-657E
kCangjie	HQD
kCantonese	loi4
kEACC	2E6C3E
kHanYu	52961.051
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	52961.051
kIRGKangXi	0884.181
kIRG_GSource	GE-4579
kIRG_TSource	T3-657E
kIRG_VSource	V2-7F54
kKangXi	0884.181
kMandarin	lái
kRSUnicode	118.6
kTotalStrokes	12