U+7BAB "箫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7BAB "箫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character representing a vertical bamboo flute, known as the *xiao*, which is a classical wind instrument with a long history in East Asian music, particularly in Chinese and Japanese traditions. This ideograph combines the bamboo radical to suggest its material, while the phonetic component gives clues to its pronunciation in various Chinese dialects. In modern contexts, the character is used both as a noun for the instrument itself and in poetic or literary references to convey a sense of serene or melancholic music.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7BAB
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	箫
HTML Hex Encoding	箫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xAE 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7BAB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007BAB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7bab

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	275042
kCangjie	XHLX
kCantonese	siu1
kDefinition	bamboo flute
kEACC	275042
kFenn	164aG
kFennIndex	171.01
kFourCornerCode	8822
kGB0	8379
kHanYu	52988.040
kHanyuPinlu	xiāo(11)
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	52988.040
kIRGKangXi	0889.321
kIRG_GSource	G0-736F
kTGH	2013:3124
kKangXi	0889.321
kMainlandTelegraph	4682
kMandarin	xiāo
kPhonetic	1261*
kRSUnicode	118.8
kSMSZD2003Index	503.12
kTGHZ2013	403.080:xiāo
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"簫" U+7C2B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1265.060:xiāo