U+7CA5 "粥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
粥
U+7CA5 "粥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of congee or rice porridge, a staple food across many East Asian cultures. It is composed of two radicals: "米" meaning rice, and "弓" which originally depicted a cooking vessel, together symbolizing the boiling of rice into a thick, nourishing soup. This ideograph is used in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it carries similar meanings related to gruel or porridge. Historically, "粥" has appeared in classical texts and is associated with frugality and healing diets, as congee was often consumed for its easy digestibility and restorative properties.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7CA5 |
| 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 | 粥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 粥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xB2 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7CA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007CA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7ca5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B5B0 |
| kCCCII | 21505B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6136 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6136 |
| kCangjie | NFDN |
| kCantonese | zuk1 |
| kCihaiT | 1025.602 |
| kCowles | 365 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1334.270 |
| kDefinition | rice gruel, congee |
| kEACC | 21505B |
| kFanqie | 余六 之六 |
| kFenn | 517C |
| kFennIndex | 90.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1722.7 |
| kGB0 | 5464 |
| kGB1 | 5464 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 1024a |
| kHangul | 죽:0N |
| kHanYu | 21000.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhōu(48) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21000.040:zhōu,yù |
| kHKGlyph | 3039 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1334.270 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21000.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0908.360 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5660 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B5B0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3421 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EAA5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7154 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6136 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8E61 |
| kJapanese | イク シュク ビ ミ かゆ ひさぐ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2803 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAYU HISAGU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHUKU IKU |
| kJis0 | 2001 |
| kKangXi | 0908.360 |
| kKorean | CWUK YUK |
| kLau | 1605 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4728 |
| kMandarin | zhōu |
| kMatthews | 1384 |
| kMeyerWempe | 396 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019850 |
| kMorohashi | 26938 |
| kNelson | 1574 |
| kPhonetic | 301 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1501+57.3.9 C+1501+119.6.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 119.6 |
| kSBGY | 455.49 456.25 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 511.02 209.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhōu粵zuk1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4728 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 482.070:zhōu |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 260:241 |
| kXHC1983 | 1418.110:yù 1505.030:zhōu |