U+7EA3 "纣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7EA3 "纣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically associated with the infamous King Zhou of Shang, the last ruler of the Shang dynasty. In traditional narratives, he is portrayed as a cruel and decadent tyrant whose misrule led to the dynasty's fall and the rise of the Zhou dynasty. The character itself is composed of the silk radical on the left, suggesting a connection to textiles or binding, and a phonetic component on the right, though its modern usage is almost exclusively tied to this historical figure. As such, it carries strong cultural and literary weight in Chinese texts, often symbolizing tyranny and moral failure.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7EA3
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	纣
HTML Hex Encoding	纣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xBA 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7EA3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007EA3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7ea3

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	275071
kCangjie	VMDI
kCantonese	zau6
kDefinition	name of an emperor; saddle part
kEACC	275071
kFourCornerCode	2410
kGB0	7091
kHanYu	53364.040
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53364.040
kIRGKangXi	0944.251
kIRG_GSource	G0-667B
kTGH	2013:3645
kKangXi	0944.251
kMainlandTelegraph	4765
kMandarin	zhòu
kRSUnicode	120'.3
kTGHZ2013	482.130:zhòu
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"紂" U+7D02 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1506.030:zhòu