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Glyph for U+7434
Source: Noto CJK

U+7434 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​7434

U+7434 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+7434 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

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 (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7434
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+7434 CJK Unified Ideograph-7434
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) B55E
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 214B4D
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-6064
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-6064
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) MGOIN
kCantonese (kCantonese) kam4
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 897.105
kCowles (kCowles) 1911
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1147.080
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) Chinese lute or guitar
kEACC (kEACC) 214B4D
kFenn (kFenn) 77B
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 77.04
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 1120.7
kFrequency (kFrequency) 3
kGB0 (kGB0) 3957
kGB1 (kGB1) 3957
kGSR (kGSR) 0651q
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 4
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 2563
kHanYu (kHanYu) 21119.070
kHangul (kHangul) 금:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) qín(59)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 21119.070:qín
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1147.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 21119.070
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0735.110
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-4759
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-B55E
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-3657
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-D2A2
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-5056
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-6064
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-5F2E
kJapanese (kJapanese) キン ゴン こと
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) KOTO
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) KIN
kJis0 (kJis0) 2255
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0735.110
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 386
kKorean (kKorean) KUM
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 1655
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 3830
kMandarin (kMandarin) qín
kMatthews (kMatthews) 1103
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 1024
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ017306 MJ017306:E0101 MJ017307:E0102 MJ017308:E0103
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 21079 21079:E0101
kNelson (kNelson) 2949
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 565
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+1743+96.4.8
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 96.8
kSBGY (kSBGY) 219.11
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 429.04
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) qín粵kam4
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:2501
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 302.110:qín
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 3830
kTang (kTang) *ghyim
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 12
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) cầm
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0927.100:qín
Xerox Code (kXerox) 250:241