U+7BE4 "篤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
篤
U+7BE4 "篤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "sincere," "earnest," or "serious," and it often conveys a sense of deep dedication or honesty in one's conduct or thoughts. In modern usage, it appears in words like "篤信" meaning sincere belief or "篤行" meaning earnest practice, and it is also used in Japanese contexts as a kanji for "篤い" (atsui) to describe intense dedication or affection. Its structure combines the bamboo radical (竹) with the character for horse (馬), suggesting an ancient graphical association with steadiness or strength. This character is encoded under the CJK Unified Ideographs block to support East Asian languages in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7BE4 |
| 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 | 篤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 篤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xAF 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7BE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007BE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7be4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BF77 |
| kCCCII | 215039 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7161 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7161 |
| kCangjie | HSQF |
| kCantonese | duk1 |
| kCihaiT | 1019.602 |
| kCowles | 4256 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1321.260 |
| kDefinition | deep, true, sincere, genuine |
| kEACC | 215039 |
| kFanqie | 冬毒 |
| kFenn | 255E |
| kFennIndex | 568.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8832.7 |
| kGB1 | 8338 |
| kGSR | 1019g |
| kHangul | 독:0E |
| kHanYu | 52997.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 52997.060:dǔ |
| kHKGlyph | 3006 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1321.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52997.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0894.290 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7346 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BF77 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4646 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D6BC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-543F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7161 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-622C |
| kJapanese | トク あつい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | ATSUI |
| kJapaneseOn | TOKU |
| kJis0 | 3838 |
| kKangXi | 0894.290 |
| kKorean | TOK |
| kMandarin | dǔ |
| kMatthews | 6514 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3581 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019620 |
| kMorohashi | 26344 |
| kNelson | 3434 |
| kPhonetic | 304 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3230+118.6.10 C+3230+187.10.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.10 |
| kSBGY | 459.51 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "笃" U+7B03 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 505.05 786.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dǔ粵duk1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4648 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | đốc |
| kXerox | 261:121 |