U+7EC9 "绉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
绉
U+7EC9 "绉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of fine, soft, and slightly wrinkled silk fabric, often used in traditional clothing and textiles. Its simplified form, as seen in the Unicode encoding, corresponds to the traditional character "縐," and it is pronounced as "zhòu" in Mandarin. The character is composed of the radical for silk "纟" on the left, indicating its association with textiles, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation. In practical usage, "绉" is commonly found in terms like "绉布" (crepe fabric) or "绉纱" (crepe silk), and it carries a cultural connotation of elegance and delicacy in Chinese dressmaking.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7EC9 |
| 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 | 绉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 绉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xBB 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7EC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007EC9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7ec9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 287269 |
| kCangjie | VMNSM |
| kCantonese | zau3 |
| kDefinition | crepe, crape, wrinkles, creases |
| kEACC | 287269 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2717 |
| kGB0 | 7107 |
| kHanYu | 53385.040 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53385.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0944.251 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6727 |
| kTGH | 2013:4079 |
| kKangXi | 0944.251 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4900 |
| kMandarin | zhòu |
| kPhonetic | 234* |
| kRSUnicode | 120'.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 518.15 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 482.180:zhòu |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "縐" U+7E10 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1506.180:zhòu |