U+7BB8 "箸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
箸
U+7BB8 "箸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "chopsticks," the pair of thin sticks used as eating utensils in many East Asian cultures, though it also historically carries the meaning of "to hold" or "to grasp." In modern usage, it is commonly seen in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, where it represents the essential dining implement made from materials like bamboo, wood, or plastic. Its composition combines the radical for bamboo (⺮) with the element for "person" or "someone" (者), reflecting the traditional crafting of chopsticks from bamboo and their intimate connection to human mealtime activity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7BB8 |
| 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 | 箸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 箸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAE 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7BB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007BB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7bb8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BAE6 |
| kCCCII | 226C59 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6A2F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6A2F |
| kCangjie | HJKA |
| kCantonese | zyu6 |
| kCihaiT | 1018.102 |
| kCowles | 341 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1318.150 |
| kDefinition | chopsticks |
| kEACC | 226C59 |
| kFanqie | 陟慮 遟倨 |
| kFenn | 192G |
| kFennIndex | 96.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8860.4 |
| kGB0 | 8371 |
| kGB1 | 8371 |
| kGSR | 0045j |
| kHangul | 저:0N |
| kHanYu | 52979.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 52979.010:zhù,zhuó |
| kIICore | AGTJKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1318.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52979.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0891.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7367 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BAE6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4824 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E7B2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6E46 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6A2F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6224 |
| kJapanese | チョ チャク ト はし |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5746 |
| kJapaneseKun | HASHI |
| kJapaneseOn | CHO CHAKU |
| kJis0 | 4004 |
| kKangXi | 0891.030 |
| kKorean | CE |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4632 |
| kMandarin | zhù |
| kMatthews | 1360 |
| kMeyerWempe | 360 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019568 MJ019567:E0102 MJ019568:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 26224 26224:E0103 |
| kNelson | 3422 |
| kPhonetic | 94 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3384+118.6.8 V+7775+118.6.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.9 |
| kSBGY | 362.30 362.53 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7B6F<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 503.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhù粵zyu6,zyu3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4632 |
| kTang | djhiù |
| kTGHZ2013 | 486.060:zhù |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | giạ |
| kXerox | 271:174 |
| kXHC1983 | 1514.050:zhù |