U+7CE8 "糨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
糨
U+7CE8 "糨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, primarily meaning "starch" or "paste," often referring to a thick, glutinous substance commonly used as an adhesive or sizing material in cooking and textile work. It is a compound ideograph typically formed from the radical for "rice" on the left and the phonetic component "强" on the right, reflecting its semantic connection to grains and thickness. In modern usage, it appears in words like "糨糊" (jiàng hu), meaning "paste," and is also encountered in dialects or regional terms for viscous liquids.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7CE8 |
| 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 | 糨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 糨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xB3 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7CE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007CE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7ce8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EDCF |
| kCCCII | 226F7B |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5E3C |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5E3C |
| kCangjie | FDNII |
| kCantonese | goeng6 |
| kDefinition | starch, paste; to starch |
| kEACC | 4C6F7B |
| kFanqie | 其亮 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9393.6 |
| kGB0 | 8461 |
| kGB1 | 8461 |
| kHanYu | 53161.120 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53161.120:jiàng,jiāng |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53161.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0913.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-745D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EDCF |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-019929 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6620 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-516B |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5E3C |
| kJapanese | キョウ |
| kTGH | 2013:6360 |
| kKangXi | 0913.090 |
| kMandarin | jiàng |
| kMatthews | 655 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019929 |
| kMorohashi | 27114 |
| kRSUnicode | 119.11 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7CE1<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 513.03 513.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiàng粵goeng6 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 168.050:jiàng |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 301:320 |
| kXHC1983 | 0562.090:jiàng |