U+7B6D "筭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

筭

U+7B6D "筭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an East Asian ideograph representing an ancient form of the Chinese character for "to calculate" or "to compute," often specifically referring to counting rods or a type of abacus used in traditional mathematics. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is composed of the radical for bamboo, 竹, and the component 弄, which together evoke the image of manipulating bamboo rods for arithmetic. In historical contexts, 筭 denotes both the physical instruments for calculation and the act of reckoning, distinguishing it from the more common modern character 算, though they share related meanings. Its usage appears in classical Chinese texts and technical writings on mathematics, preserving a link to ancient computational methods.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7B6D
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	筭
HTML Hex Encoding	筭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xAD 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7B6D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007B6D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7b6d

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	DF48
kCCCII	226B70
kCNS1986	2-456D
kCNS1992	2-456D
kCangjie	HMGT
kCantonese	syun3
kCihaiT	1014.606
kDaeJaweon	1314.020
kDefinition	an ancient device for working with numbers; count, calculate, figure
kEACC	226B70
kFanqie	蘇貫
kFennIndex	475.09
kFourCornerCode	8844.1 9944.1
kGB3	6790
kGSR	0173a
kHanYu	52971.060
kHanyuPinyin	52971.060:suàn
kIRGDaeJaweon	1314.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	52971.060
kIRGKangXi	0885.220
kIRG_GSource	G3-637A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DF48
kIRG_JSource	J13-7960
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-642F
kIRG_KSource	K2-5027
kIRG_TSource	T2-456D
kIRG_VSource	V1-6177
kJapanese	サンかぞえる
kJIS0213	1,89,64
kJapaneseKun	SOROBAN KAZOERU
kJapaneseOn	SAN
kJis1	5015
kKangXi	0885.220
kMandarin	suàn
kMatthews	5516
kMojiJoho	MJ019484 MJ019484:E0101 MJ019485:E0102
kMorohashi	26069 26069:E0101 49427:E0102
kPhonetic	858 1246
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14943+118.6.7
kRSUnicode	118.7
kSBGY	404.13
kSemanticVariant	U+7B97<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	501.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	suàn粵syun3
kTaiwanTelegraph	8937
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kVietnamese	toan
kXerox	305:167
kXHC1983	1098.030:suàn