U+7B72 "筲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
筲
U+7B72 "筲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of bamboo container or basket, often used historically for holding rice, grains, or other food items during washing or cooking. It can also denote a measuring vessel, sometimes specifically a basket with a handle, and appears in classical texts and traditional contexts related to daily life in East Asia. The character is formed with the bamboo radical suggesting its material composition, and it remains in modern usage primarily within literary or regional vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7B72 |
| 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 | 筲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 筲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAD 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7B72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007B72 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7b72 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DF4B |
| kCCCII | 226B79 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4570 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4570 |
| kCangjie | HFB |
| kCantonese | saau1 |
| kCihaiT | 1014.502 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1314.090 |
| kDefinition | basket, bucket |
| kEACC | 226B79 |
| kFanqie | 所交 |
| kFenn | 124I |
| kFennIndex | 439.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8822.7 |
| kGB0 | 8366 |
| kGB1 | 8366 |
| kGSR | 1149a' |
| kHanYu | 52973.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 52973.040:shāo |
| kIICore | BGH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1314.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52973.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0886.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7362 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DF4B |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7962 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-643B |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-502A |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4570 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6179 |
| kJapanese | ソウ ショウ サク めしびつ |
| kTGH | 2013:5503 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,89,66 |
| kJapaneseKun | HUGO |
| kJapaneseOn | SOU SHOU SAKU |
| kJis1 | 5017 |
| kKangXi | 0886.030 |
| kLau | 2625 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4603 |
| kMandarin | shāo |
| kMatthews | 5682 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2609b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019490 MJ019490:E0101 MJ019491:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 26077 26077:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 220 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14944+118.6.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.7 |
| kSBGY | 152.55 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 501.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shāo粵saau1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4603 |
| kTang | shrau |
| kTGHZ2013 | 327.090:shāo |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | sáo |
| kXerox | 315:325 |
| kXHC1983 | 1008.050:shāo |