U+7B5D "筝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+7B5D "筝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that refers to a traditional Chinese musical instrument, typically a type of zither known as the guzheng, which has a history spanning over two thousand years and is played with plucked strings. Its composition combines the radical for bamboo, reflecting the material often used in constructing the instrument, with the phonetic component "争" which provides a clue to its pronunciation. The character is used in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, though its meaning and usage may vary slightly across these languages. Its inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and interchange for texts that require this character across various platforms and scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+7B5D
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 筝
HTML Hex Encoding 筝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xAD 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7B5D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007B5D
C/C++/Java Escape \u7b5d

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 2D502D
kCangjie HNSD
kCantonese zang1
kDefinition stringed musical instrument; kite
kEACC 2D502D
kFourCornerCode 8850.7
kGB0 8361
kGB1 8361
kHanYu 52970.010
kHanyuPinyin 52970.010:zhēng
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 52970.010
kIRGKangXi 0884.181
kIRG_GSource G0-735D
kIRG_JSource J0-6438
kJapanese ショウ ソウ こと
kTGH 2013:2689
kJapaneseKun KOTO
kJapaneseOn SOU SHOU
kJis0 6824
kKangXi 0884.181
kMainlandTelegraph 4620
kMandarin zhēng
kMojiJoho MJ019467
kMorohashi H456
kPhonetic 32*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+5993+118.6.6
kRSUnicode 118.6
kTGHZ2013 473.130:zhēng
kTotalStrokes 12
kTraditionalVariant "箏" U+7B8F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 GJ
kXHC1983 1472.080:zhēng