U+7ECE "绎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+7ECE "绎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a verb meaning to unravel, sort out, or explain, often carrying the extended sense of to deduce or to draw a continuous thread of reasoning. It is the simplified form of the traditional character "繹" and is composed of the silk radical (纟) on the left, which suggests connection or continuity, and the phonetic component "睪" on the right. In classical and modern Chinese literature, it appears in phrases like "演繹" meaning to deduce or to perform, and "絡繹不絕" describing a continuous, unbroken stream of people or traffic. Historically, the character traces back to ancient Chinese texts, where it evoked the imagery of unwinding silk to understand a tangled thread, metaphorically extending to the intellectual process of clarifying complex ideas.

General Properties

Code Point U+7ECE
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 绎
HTML Hex Encoding 绎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0xBB 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x7ECE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00007ECE
C/C++/Java Escape \u7ece

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 275178
kCangjie VMEQ
kCantonese jik6
kDefinition to unravel or unreel silk; to interpret
kEACC 275178
kFourCornerCode 2715
kGB0 5079
kHanYu 53388.060
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53388.060
kIRGKangXi 0944.251
kIRG_GSource G0-526F
kTGH 2013:1349
kKangXi 0944.251
kMainlandTelegraph 4946
kMandarin
kPhonetic 1560*
kRSUnicode 120'.5
kSMSZD2003Index 518.16
kTGHZ2013 434.180:yì
kTotalStrokes 8
kTraditionalVariant "繹" U+7E79 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1372.060:yì