U+7BA8 "箨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7BA8 "箨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the sheath or outer covering of bamboo shoots, often called bamboo shoot husks or sheaths. In classical and modern Chinese usage, this ideograph appears in botanical contexts to describe the protective leaf-like layers that encase young bamboo shoots as they emerge from the ground. It is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is composed of the bamboo radical (⺮) combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its connection to bamboo growth and morphology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7BA8
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	箨
HTML Hex Encoding	箨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xAE 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7BA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007BA8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7ba8

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

kCCCII	286E56
kCangjie	HQEQ
kCantonese	tok3
kDefinition	bamboo sheath, bamboo shoots
kEACC	286E56
kFourCornerCode	8855
kGB0	8374
kHanYu	52979.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	52979.030
kIRGKangXi	0889.321
kIRG_GSource	G0-736A
kTGH	2013:7690
kKangXi	0889.321
kMainlandTelegraph	4703
kMandarin	tuò
kRSUnicode	118.8
kSMSZD2003Index	503.15
kTGHZ2013	376.120:tuò
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"籜" U+7C5C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1174.150:tuò