U+7BCF "篏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+7BCF "篏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in classical and literary contexts, often conveying the meaning of "to inlay," "to set," or "to implant," akin to the concept of embedding one object within another, such as metal inlaid into wood or stone. This character is composed of a bamboo radical on top and a phonetic component below, linking it to craft and decorative arts. It is historically attested in various East Asian texts and dictionaries, where it functions as a variant or alternative form of more common characters like "嵌" (qiàn), though it remains less prevalent in modern simplified Chinese. The ideograph belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified block, allowing it to be represented consistently across digital systems for languages that use Chinese-derived script.

General Properties

Code Point U+7BCF
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 篏
HTML Hex Encoding 篏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xAF 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7BCF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007BCF
C/C++/Java Escape \u7bcf

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 226C5A
kCangjie HTMO
kCantonese ham3
kDefinition inlay, set in; fall into; rugged
kEACC 226C5A
kFourCornerCode 8878.2
kGB5 6758
kHanYu 52989.020
kHanyuPinyin 52989.020:qiàn
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 52989.020
kIRGKangXi 0893.291
kIRG_GSource G5-635A
kIRG_HSource H-9F5D
kIRG_JSource J0-643D
kJapanese カン はさむ
kJapaneseKun HASAMU KUBIKASE
kJapaneseOn KAN KEN
kJis0 6829
kKangXi 0893.291
kMandarin qiàn
kMojiJoho MJ019599
kMorohashi H461
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+5998+118.6.9
kRSUnicode 118.9
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HJ