U+7CB5 "粵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
粵
U+7CB5 "粵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the region of Guangdong and Guangxi in southern China, as well as the Yue people and their language, including Cantonese. It is composed of the radical for "rice" and a phonetic component, reflecting its historical use in names and terms related to the Lingnan area. The character appears in both traditional and simplified Chinese scripts, and it is notably used in the name of Yuexiu District in Guangzhou and in the abbreviation 粤 for Guangdong Province. Its cultural significance extends to representing the distinct identity and linguistic heritage of the Cantonese-speaking population.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7CB5 |
| 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 | 粵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 粵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xB2 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7CB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007CB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7cb5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B866 |
| kCCCII | 21505C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-656D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-656D |
| kCangjie | HWMVS |
| kCantonese | jyut6 |
| kCowles | 4943 |
| kDefinition | Guangdong and Guangxi provinces; initial particle |
| kFanqie | 王伐 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2620.7 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0305a |
| kHanYu | 53149.041 |
| kHKGlyph | 3042 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53149.041 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0909.311 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-466D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B866 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5155 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-656D |
| kJapaneseKun | KOKONI |
| kJapaneseOn | ETSU OCHI |
| kKangXi | 0909.311 |
| kKarlgren | 7 |
| kKorean | WEL |
| kLau | 3572 |
| kMandarin | yuè |
| kMatthews | 7704 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3684 |
| kRSUnicode | 119.7 |
| kSBGY | 478.02 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7CA4<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "粤" U+7CA4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 511.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yuè粵jyut6 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 252:132 |