U+7C40 "籀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

籀

U+7C40 "籀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a style of ancient seal script calligraphy known as "Zhòu" or Zhou script, which is associated with the legendary historian Shizhou of the Zhou dynasty, who is credited with creating a standardized form of writing for official documents. The character itself is composed of semantic and phonetic components, with the bamboo radical (⺮) indicating its connection to bamboo slips or writing materials, and the phonetic element "由" suggesting its pronunciation. While rarely used in modern Chinese, "籀" appears in classical texts and historical discussions of calligraphy, where it denotes a formal, archaic script style that predates the more common small seal script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7C40
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	籀
HTML Hex Encoding	籀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xB1 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7C40
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007C40
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7c40

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

kBigFive	C3B3
kCCCII	226E2A
kCNS1986	1-785E
kCNS1992	1-785E
kCangjie	HQHW
kCantonese	zau6
kDefinition	recite, read; style of calligraphy
kEACC	226E2A
kFanqie	直祐
kFourCornerCode	8856.2
kGB0	8406
kGB1	8406
kHanYu	53020.040
kHanyuPinyin	53020.040:zhòu
kIICore	AGT
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53020.040
kIRGKangXi	0902.321
kIRG_GSource	G0-7426
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C3B3
kIRG_JSource	J0-645A
kIRG_KSource	K2-5123
kIRG_TSource	T1-785E
kJapanese	チュウ
kTGH	2013:6398
kJapaneseKun	YOMU
kJapaneseOn	CHUU
kJis0	6858
kKangXi	0902.321
kMainlandTelegraph	4699
kMandarin	zhòu
kMeyerWempe	177d
kMojiJoho	MJ019726
kMorohashi	26646
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6027+118.6.13
kRSUnicode	118.13
kSBGY	435.06
kSMSZD2003Index	507.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhòu粵zau6
kTaiwanTelegraph	4699
kTGHZ2013	483.080:zhòu
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	276:162
kXHC1983	1506.120:zhòu