U+7CA6 "粦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7CA6 "粦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "phosphorus" or describes the flickering light of fireflies, often conveying the idea of a brief or ghostly luminescence. It is composed of the radical for rice or grain (米) combined with a component suggesting movement or variation, reflecting its historical association with natural phenomena like lightning or will-o'-the-wisps. In modern usage, it is less common in everyday language but appears in technical or literary contexts, particularly in chemical terminology where it denotes phosphorus, owing to its elemental property of emitting a faint glow when exposed to air. This character thus bridges ancient poetic imagery with contemporary scientific nomenclature, embodying a conceptual link between the natural world and human observation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7CA6
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	粦
HTML Hex Encoding	粦
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xB2 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7CA6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007CA6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7ca6

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	226F4C
kCNS1986	E-3E22
kCNS1992	3-3E22
kCangjie	FDNIQ
kCantonese	leon4
kCihaiT	1026.202
kDaeJaweon	1334.280
kDefinition	phosphorus (element 15, P)
kEACC	226F4C
kFanqie	力珍 良刃
kFennIndex	309.07
kGB8	1591
kGSR	0387a
kHangul	린:1N
kHanYu	53147.120
kHanyuPinyin	53147.120:lín
kIRGDaeJaweon	1334.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53147.120
kIRGKangXi	0909.010
kIRG_GSource	G8-2F7B
kIRG_HSource	H-8E75
kIRG_JSource	J14-7376
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-65C0
kIRG_KSource	K1-5F6A
kIRG_TSource	T3-3E22
kJapanese	リン おにび
kKoreanName	2015
kJIS0213	2,83,86
kJapaneseOn	RIN
kJis1	5118
kKangXi	0909.010
kKorean	LIN
kMainlandTelegraph	9036
kMandarin	lín
kMatthews	4028
kMeyerWempe	1704a
kMojiJoho	MJ019852 MJ019852:E0101 MJ019851:E0102
kMorohashi	26939:E0102
kPhonetic	852
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18321+119.6.7 C+18321+136.7.6
kRSUnicode	119.6
kSBGY	392.43
kSemanticVariant	U+3DE0<kMatthews U+71D0<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index	511.05 567.16
kTaiwanTelegraph	4729
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	323:120