U+4E2D "中" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
中
U+4E2D "中" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character meaning "middle," "center," or "within," and it is widely used in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its visual form represents a vertical line passing through a rectangle, symbolizing the concept of centrality or the axis mundi. Beyond its literal meaning, it appears in key cultural terms such as "中国" (China, meaning "middle kingdom") and "中道" (the middle way in philosophy). This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, ensuring consistent digital representation across systems for over a billion users.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E2D |
| 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 | 中 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 中 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB8 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E2D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E2D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e2d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4A4 |
| kCCCII | 213034 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4463 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4463 |
| kCangjie | L |
| kCantonese | zung1 |
| kCihaiT | 37.402 |
| kCowles | 383 396 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0158.060 |
| kDefinition | central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain |
| kEACC | 213034 |
| kFanqie | 陟弓 陟仲 |
| kFenn | 784A |
| kFennIndex | 108.06 109.11 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5000.6 |
| kGB0 | 5448 |
| kGB1 | 5448 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1007a |
| kHangul | 중:0E |
| kHanYu | 10028.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhōng(4875) zhòng(66) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10028.100:zhōng,zhòng |
| kHKGlyph | 0020 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0158.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10028.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0079.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5650 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4A4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4366 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EABB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7169 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4463 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4A35 |
| kJapanese | チュウ チュ なか あたる あてる うち |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:113 |
| kJapaneseKun | NAKA UCHI ATARU |
| kJapaneseOn | CHUU |
| kJis0 | 3570 |
| kKangXi | 0079.030 |
| kKorean | CWUNG |
| kLau | 1621 1622 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0022 |
| kMandarin | zhōng |
| kMatthews | 1504 |
| kMeyerWempe | 415 424 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006347 |
| kMorohashi | 00073 |
| kNelson | 0081 |
| kPhonetic | 322 332 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2980+2.1.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 2.3 |
| kSBGY | 024.22 344.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 5.12 87.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhōng粵zung1 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+585A<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0022 |
| kTang | *djiùng djiung |
| kTGHZ2013 | 480.020:zhōng 481.040:zhòng |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | trung |
| kXerox | 241:074 |
| kXHC1983 | 1494.100:zhōng 1501.040:zhòng |