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Glyph for U+7434
Source: Noto CJK

U+7434 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​7434

U+7434 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as Chinese lute or guitar. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is qín.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+7434 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The guqin ([kùtɕʰǐn] ; Chinese: 古琴) is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument. It has been played since ancient times, and has traditionally been favoured by scholars and literati as an instrument of great subtlety and refinement, as highlighted by the quote "a gentleman does not part with his qin or se without good reason," as well as being associated with the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius. It is sometimes referred to by the Chinese as "the father of Chinese music" or "the instrument of the sages". The guqin is not to be confused with the guzheng, another Chinese long stringed instrument also without frets, but with moveable bridges under each string.

Traditionally, the instrument was simply referred to as the "qin" (琴) but by the twentieth century the term had come to be applied to many other musical instruments as well: the yangqin hammered dulcimer, the huqin family of bowed string instruments, and the Western piano (gangqin (钢琴)) and violin (xiaotiqin (小提琴)) are examples of this usage. The prefix "gu-" (古; meaning "ancient") was later added for clarification. Thus, the instrument is called "guqin" today. It can also be called qixian-qin (七絃琴; lit. "seven-stringed qin"). Because Robert Hans van Gulik's book about the qin is called The Lore of the Chinese Lute, the guqin is sometimes inaccurately called a lute. Other incorrect classifications, mainly from music compact discs, include "harp" or "table-harp".

The guqin is a very quiet instrument, with a range of about four octaves, and its open strings are tuned in the bass register. Its lowest pitch is about two octaves below middle C, or the lowest note on the cello. Sounds are produced by plucking open strings, stopped strings, and harmonics. The use of glissando—sliding tones—gives it a sound reminiscent of a pizzicato cello, fretless double bass or a slide guitar. The qin has 13 "hui", which represent the different position in one string. Pressing different "hui" produces different sound keys. The qin is also capable of many harmonics, of which 91 are most commonly used and indicated by the dotted positions. By tradition, the qin originally had five strings, which represent gong, shang, jue, zhi, yu in the ancient Chinese music system, but ancient qin-like instruments with only one string or more strings have been found. The modern form has been stabilized to seven strings.

There are more than 3,360 known surviving pieces of guqin music from ancient and imperial periods. On 7 November 2003, UNESCO announced that the Chinese guqin was selected as an Intangible World Cultural Heritage. In 2006, guqin was listed in the List of National Non-material Cultural Heritage in China. In 2010, a Song period guqin was sold for $22 million, making it the most expensive musical instrument ever sold.

Representations

System Representation
29748
UTF-8 E7 90 B4
UTF-16 74 34
UTF-32 00 00 74 34
URL-Quoted %E7%90%B4
HTML hex reference 琴
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 琴
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) D0 D6
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) B6 D7
Pīnyīn qín

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7434
Unicode 1 Name
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Script Han
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Case Folding Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ideographic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
Big Five Mapping B55E
CCCII Mapping 214B4D
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping 1-6064
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 1-6064
Cangjie Input Code MGOIN
kCantonese kam4
kCihaiT 897.105
kCowles 1911
kDaeJaweon 1147.080
Unihan Definition Chinese lute or guitar
kEACC 214B4D
kFenn 77B
kFennIndex 77.04
kFourCornerCode 1120.7
kFrequency 3
kGB0 3957
kGB1 3957
kGSR 0651q
kGradeLevel 4
kHKGlyph 2563
kHanYu 21119.070
kHangul 금:0E
kHanyuPinlu qín(59)
kHanyuPinyin 21119.070:qín
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1147.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21119.070
kIRGKangXi 0735.110
kIRG_GSource G0-4759
kIRG_HSource HB1-B55E
kIRG_JSource J0-3657
kIRG_KPSource KP0-D2A2
kIRG_KSource K0-5056
kIRG_TSource T1-6064
kIRG_VSource V1-5F2E
kJapanese キン ゴン こと
kJapaneseKun KOTO
kJapaneseOn KIN
kJis0 2255
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKangXi 0735.110
kKarlgren 386
kKorean KUM
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kLau 1655
kMainlandTelegraph 3830
kMandarin qín
kMatthews 1103
kMeyerWempe 1024
kMojiJoho MJ017306 MJ017306:E0101 MJ017307:E0102 MJ017308:E0103
kMorohashi 21079 21079:E0101
kNelson 2949
kPhonetic 565
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+1743+96.4.8
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 96.8
kSBGY 219.11
kSMSZD2003Index 429.04
kSMSZD2003Readings qín粵kam4
kTGH 2013:2501
kTGHZ2013 302.110:qín
Taiwanese Telegraph Code 3830
kTang *ghyim
Stroke Number 12
UnihanCore2020 Set GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation cầm
kXHC1983 0927.100:qín
Xerox Code 250:241