U+7F23 "缣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7F23 "缣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that refers to a type of thin, durable silk fabric used in ancient China for writing, painting, or making clothing, often specifically denoting a double-threaded or coarse silk material. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, with its modern usage primarily arising in historical or literary contexts, though it remains rare in contemporary everyday writing. Its structure combines the silk radical on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its etymological ties to textile production and cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7F23
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	缣
HTML Hex Encoding	缣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xBC 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7F23
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007F23
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7f23

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	27515F
kCangjie	VMTXC
kCantonese	gim1
kDefinition	fine silk
kEACC	27515F
kFourCornerCode	2813
kGB0	7144
kHanYu	53439.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53439.110
kIRGKangXi	0944.251
kIRG_GSource	G0-674C
kTGH	2013:5618
kKangXi	0944.251
kMainlandTelegraph	4906
kMandarin	jiān
kPhonetic	615*
kRSUnicode	120'.10
kTGHZ2013	163.160:jiān
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"縑" U+7E11 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0546.110:jiān