U+7C41 "籁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+7C41 "籁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of a musical pipe or a natural sound, often specifically referring to the sound of the wind or a reed instrument, and it is commonly found in literary and poetic contexts to evoke a sense of serene or ethereal auditory beauty. This ideograph is composed of the radical for bamboo (⺮) and the phonetic component 赖 (lài), reflecting its original meaning of a bamboo pipe used in ancient Chinese music. In modern usage, it appears in terms like 天籁 (tiānlài), meaning "sounds of nature" or "heavenly music," and is also used in personal names, carrying connotations of harmony and elegance.

General Properties

Code Point U+7C41
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 籁
HTML Hex Encoding 籁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xB1 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7C41
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007C41
C/C++/Java Escape \u7c41

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 275051
kCangjie HDLO
kCantonese laai6
kDefinition bamboo flute; pipe; various sound
kEACC 275051
kFourCornerCode 8898
kGB0 8405
kHanYu 53020.100
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53020.100
kIRGKangXi 0902.321
kIRG_GSource G0-7425
kTGH 2013:6399
kKangXi 0902.321
kMainlandTelegraph 4704
kMandarin lài
kRSUnicode 118.13
kSMSZD2003Index 508.03
kTGHZ2013 208.030:lài
kTotalStrokes 19
kTraditionalVariant "籟" U+7C5F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0671.130:lài