U+7F7E "罾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7F7E "罾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a type of fishing net, specifically a large net that is lifted or cast from a boat or a fixed position, often used in traditional East Asian fishing practices. This ideograph is composed of a net radical (罒) over a phonetic component (曾), and it appears primarily in classical texts and poetry rather than in modern everyday writing. The character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, which ensures consistent representation across digital systems for East Asian languages. While its usage has declined with the advent of industrial fishing, it retains cultural significance in literature and historical discussions of ancient fishing techniques.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7F7E
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	罾
HTML Hex Encoding	罾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xBD 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7F7E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007F7E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7f7e

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

kBigFive	EDE3
kCCCII	22746B
kCNS1986	2-5E50
kCNS1992	2-5E50
kCangjie	WLCWA
kCantonese	zang1
kCihaiT	1066.207
kCowles	4492
kDaeJaweon	1391.170
kDefinition	a large square net, lowered and raised from the bank of the river
kEACC	22746B
kFanqie	作滕
kFourCornerCode	6060.6
kGB0	7832
kGB1	7832
kGSR	0884f
kHangul	증:1N
kHanYu	42926.150
kHanyuPinyin	42926.150:zēng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1391.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42926.150
kIRGKangXi	0949.330
kIRG_GSource	G0-6E40
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EDE3
kIRG_JSource	J14-7471
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-68CE
kIRG_KSource	K1-6D78
kIRG_TSource	T2-5E50
kJapanese	ソウ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:6239
kJIS0213	2,84,81
kJapaneseOn	SOU
kJis1	5303
kKangXi	0949.330
kKorean	CUNG
kMainlandTelegraph	9088
kMandarin	zēng
kMatthews	6768
kMeyerWempe	3274
kMojiJoho	MJ020577
kMorohashi	28370
kPhonetic	68
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18391+122.5.12
kRSUnicode	122.12
kSBGY	201.23
kSMSZD2003Index	536.14
kSMSZD2003Readings	zēng粵zang1
kTaiwanTelegraph	9003
kTang	tzəng
kTGHZ2013	461.080:zēng
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	277:051
kXHC1983	1446.050:zēng