U+7B9A "箚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

箚

U+7B9A "箚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily serves as an ancient or variant form of the character 劄, meaning a document, memorandum, or a type of official note in historical Chinese contexts, often used in imperial court communications or literary works. It is composed of the bamboo radical 竹 (⺮) on top, suggesting its original connection to writing materials like bamboo slips, and a phonetic and semantic component below that relates to cutting or piercing, though its specific usage may also extend to descriptions of sharpness or a stabbing motion in classical texts. This character is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, Korean, or Japanese, but it appears in specialized historical or scholarly references, where it may also serve as a variant for certain characters in traditional East Asian calligraphy or classical literature, making it a point of interest for linguists and sinologists studying the evolution of writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7B9A
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	箚
HTML Hex Encoding	箚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xAE 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7B9A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007B9A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7b9a

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	E35A'
kCCCII	226C50
kCangjie	HORN
kCantonese	zaap3
kDaeJaweon	1316.030
kDefinition	brief note; official communique
kEACC	216B5F
kFenn	708G
kFennIndex	6.12
kFourCornerCode	8862.3
kGB5	6751
kHangul	차:0N
kHanYu	52984.061
kIICore	AKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1316.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	52984.061
kIRGKangXi	0888.070
kIRG_GSource	G5-6353
kIRG_JSource	J0-6434
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-ECB1
kIRG_KSource	K0-7330
kIRG_TSource	T2-4C61
kIRG_VSource	V2-8E52
kJapanese	トウサツ
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	SASU KAGI
kJapaneseOn	SATSU TOU
kJis0	6820
kKangXi	0888.070
kKorean	CHA
kMandarin	zhá
kMatthews	85
kMojiJoho	MJ019533
kMorohashi	26149
kNelson	3405
kPhonetic	1302
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5989+118.6.8
kRSUnicode	118.8
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	JKPT
kXerox	301:254