U+7EBF "线" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

线

U+7EBF "线" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "thread," "line," or "wire" and is used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems, where it represents a thin, elongated object or a conceptual connection. It appears frequently in everyday vocabulary, such as in the word "电线" meaning electric wire, and in abstract contexts like "视线" meaning line of sight. Its structure combines the radical for silk on the left with a phonetic component, reflecting its historical association with textiles and fibers. As a fundamental character in East Asian scripts, it also appears in Japanese and Korean writing with similar meanings related to linear or thread-like entities.

General Properties

Code Point U+7EBF
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 线
HTML Hex Encoding 线
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xBA 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7EBF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007EBF
C/C++/Java Escape \u7ebf

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 27515C
kCangjie VMIJ
kCantonese sin3
kDefinition line, thread, wire; clue
kEACC 27515C
kFourCornerCode 2315
kGB0 4763
kHanYu 53378.080
kHanyuPinlu xiàn(1280)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53378.080
kIRGKangXi 0944.251
kIRG_GSource G0-4F5F
kTGH 2013:1336
kKangXi 0944.251
kMainlandTelegraph 4848
kMandarin xiàn
kPhonetic 185*
kRSUnicode 120'.5
kSMSZD2003Index 518.13
kTGHZ2013 399.170:xiàn
kTotalStrokes 8
kTraditionalVariant "綫" U+7DAB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
"線" U+7DDA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1252.030:xiàn