U+7C21 "簡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
簡
U+7C21 "簡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "simple," "brief," or "bamboo slip for writing," the latter referring to ancient bamboo strips used for recording text before the invention of paper. It is composed of the bamboo radical (竹) and a phonetic component (間), reflecting its historical association with written documents and, by extension, the concept of simplifying or condensing information. In modern usage across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, it commonly appears in words such as "簡單" (simplified/easy) and retains its dual connotations of physical simplicity and textual brevity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7C21 |
| 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 | 簡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 簡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xB0 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7C21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007C21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7c21 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2B2 |
| kCCCII | 215041 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-767C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-767C |
| kCangjie | HANA |
| kCantonese | gaan2 |
| kCowles | 1473 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1325.070 |
| kDefinition | simple, terse, succinct; letter |
| kEACC | 215041 |
| kFenn | 636D |
| kFennIndex | 60.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8822.7 |
| kGB1 | 2882 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0191d |
| kHangul | 간:0E |
| kHanYu | 53017.150 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiǎn(431) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53017.150:jiǎn |
| kHKGlyph | 3015 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1325.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53017.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0901.281 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3C72 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2B2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-344A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDDB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A5B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-767C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6230 |
| kJapanese | カン ケン えらぶ ふだ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUDA ERABU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN |
| kJis0 | 2042 |
| kKangXi | 0901.281 |
| kKarlgren | 375 |
| kKorean | KAN |
| kLau | 813 |
| kMandarin | jiǎn |
| kMatthews | 837 |
| kMeyerWempe | 973 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019688 |
| kMorohashi | 26520' |
| kNelson | 3444 |
| kPhonetic | 547 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1542+118.6.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 118.12 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8015<kLau |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "简" U+7B80 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 507.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiǎn粵gaan2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4675 |
| kTang | gɛ̌n |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | giản |
| kXerox | 245:266 |