U+7BD9 "篙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
篙
U+7BD9 "篙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in traditional and simplified writing, pronounced as "gāo" in Mandarin. It refers to a long bamboo pole used to propel a boat, often called a punt pole or boat pole. The character is composed of the radical 竹 (zhu) meaning bamboo, and the phonetic component 高 (gao) meaning tall or high, reflecting both its material and function. In classical and modern Chinese literature,篙 commonly appears in descriptions of river travel, fishing, or rural life along waterways, symbolizing human effort in navigating shallow waters. Its inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs block ensures consistent representation across digital systems for East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7BD9 |
| 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 | 篙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 篙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAF 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7BD9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007BD9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7bd9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BF74 |
| kCCCII | 215037 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-715E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-715E |
| kCangjie | HYRB |
| kCantonese | gou1 |
| kCihaiT | 1020.202 |
| kCowles | 1717 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1321.040 |
| kDefinition | pole used to punt a boat |
| kEACC | 215037 |
| kFanqie | 古勞 |
| kFenn | 582F |
| kFennIndex | 244.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8822.7 |
| kGB0 | 2461 |
| kGB1 | 2461 |
| kHangul | 고:1N |
| kHanYu | 53004.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53004.020:gāo |
| kHKGlyph | 3004 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1321.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53004.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0893.440 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-385D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BF74 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7966 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-64AD |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5879 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-715E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6229 |
| kJapanese | コウ さお |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6128 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,89,70 |
| kJapaneseKun | SAO |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis1 | 5047 |
| kKangXi | 0893.440 |
| kKarlgren | 308 |
| kKorean | KO |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4643 |
| kMandarin | gāo |
| kMatthews | 3294 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1200 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019605 |
| kMorohashi | 26313 |
| kPhonetic | 480 637 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14948+118.6.10 C+14948+189.10.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.10 |
| kSBGY | 155.20 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 505.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gāo粵gou1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4643 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 109.010:gāo |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | gàu |
| kXerox | 263:123 |
| kXHC1983 | 0367.010:gāo |