U+7B7E "签" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
签
U+7B7E "签" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means "to sign" or "a label" and is widely used in modern contexts such as signing a document or name, as well as referring to a token, slip, or sticker for drawing lots. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, and its composition combines the radical for bamboo with a phonetic component, reflecting its historical use for bamboo slips once used for drawing lots in ancient China. In contemporary Chinese, it is an essential character in words like "签名" meaning signature and "签证" meaning visa, making it highly relevant in administrative, legal, and digital contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7B7E |
| 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 | 签 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 签 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAD 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7B7E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007B7E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7b7e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27504B |
| kCangjie | HOMM |
| kCantonese | cim1 |
| kDefinition | sign, endorse; slip of paper |
| kEACC | 275052 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8810 |
| kGB0 | 3909 |
| kHanYu | 52975.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | qiān(76) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52975.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0886.231 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4729 |
| kTGH | 2013:2953 |
| kKangXi | 0886.231 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4687 |
| kMandarin | qiān |
| kPhonetic | 182* 183 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 502.02 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 295.200,295.210:qiān |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "簽" U+7C3D CJK Unified Ideograph-# "籤" U+7C64 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0908.030:qiān |