U+4E25 "严" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
严
U+4E25 "严" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "strict", "severe", or "tight", and it is widely used in both classical and modern written Chinese. This character is composed of a single radical and belongs to the set of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs, which are encoded in Unicode to support digital text across East Asian languages. In Mandarin Chinese, it is pronounced as "yán" and appears in common words such as "严重" meaning "serious" or "严肃" meaning "solemn". Its meaning often conveys a sense of rigor, harshness, or exacting standards, and it is also a common surname in Chinese culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E25 |
| 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 | 严 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 严 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB8 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E25 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E25 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e25 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27375A |
| kCangjie | MTCH |
| kCantonese | jim4 |
| kDefinition | strict, rigorous, rigid; stern |
| kEACC | 27375A |
| kFourCornerCode | 1020 |
| kGB0 | 4947 |
| kHanYu | 10019.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yán(633) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10019.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0078.131 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-514F |
| kTGH | 2013:671 |
| kKangXi | 0078.131 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0917 |
| kMandarin | yán |
| kPhonetic | 651 1566 |
| kRSUnicode | 1.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 4.18 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 422.030:yán |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "嚴" U+56B4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1326.010:yán |