U+7BEC "篬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+7BEC "篬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in Classical Chinese and classical literature, and it is composed of the bamboo radical atop the phonetic component "倉" (cāng). Pronounced "cāng" or "qiāng" in modern Mandarin, it traditionally means a dark blue or greenish black color, specifically referring to the deep shade of bamboo or related to bamboo’s hue, and it appears in historical texts and poetry as a descriptive term for such tints. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, which encompasses thousands of characters shared across East Asian writing systems, and it is rarely used in contemporary everyday language but remains significant for scholars of classical Chinese and calligraphy.

General Properties

Code Point U+7BEC
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 篬
HTML Hex Encoding 篬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xAF 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7BEC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007BEC
C/C++/Java Escape \u7bec

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 24775D
kCNS1986 E-5233
kCNS1992 3-5233
kCangjie HOIR
kCantonese coeng1
kDaeJaweon 1322.170
kFanqie 七羊
kGB5 6690
kHanYu 53003.040
kHanyuPinyin 53003.040:qiāng,cāng
kIRGDaeJaweon 1322.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53003.040
kIRGKangXi 0895.180
kIRG_GSource G5-627A
kIRG_HSource H-8CB2
kIRG_JSource JMJ-019629
kIRG_KPSource KP1-64CD
kIRG_TSource T3-5233
kJapanese ショウ ソウ
kKangXi 0895.180
kMandarin qiāng
kMojiJoho MJ019629
kMorohashi 26370
kPhonetic 254*
kRSUnicode 118.10
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 H