U+7B77 "筷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
筷
U+7B77 "筷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "chopsticks," the traditional East Asian eating utensils used in pairs to pick up food. It is composed of the radical ⺮ (bamboo) on top, indicating its material association, and the phonetic component 快 (kuài, meaning "fast" or "quick"), which suggests both the sound and the swift, efficient action of using chopsticks. This character is commonly used in Modern Standard Chinese in words like 筷子 (kuàizi), the general term for chopsticks, and it appears in various contexts related to dining, culture, and cooking across Chinese-speaking regions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7B77 |
| 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 | 筷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 筷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAD 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7B77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007B77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7b77 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B85F |
| kCCCII | 215025 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6566 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6566 |
| kCangjie | HPDK |
| kCantonese | faai3 |
| kCihaiT | 1014.608 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1314.180 |
| kDefinition | chopsticks |
| kEACC | 215025 |
| kFanqie | 苦夬 |
| kFenn | 482A |
| kFennIndex | 266.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8893.4 |
| kGB0 | 3174 |
| kGB1 | 3174 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kHanYu | 52975.150 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kuài(41) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 52975.150:kuài |
| kHKGlyph | 2986 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1314.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52975.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0886.231 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F6A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B85F |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5233 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-643E |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-502C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6566 |
| kJapanese | カイ |
| kTGH | 2013:2955 |
| kJapaneseKun | HASHI |
| kJapaneseOn | KAI |
| kJis1 | 5019 |
| kKangXi | 0886.231 |
| kKarlgren | 441 |
| kLau | 639 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4599 |
| kMandarin | kuài |
| kMatthews | 3548 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019498 |
| kMorohashi | 26100 |
| kPhonetic | 337 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19635+118.6.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 501.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kuài粵faai3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 8951 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 201.060:kuài |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 256:064 |
| kXHC1983 | 0658.010:kuài |