U+4EAC "京" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

京

U+4EAC "京" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram meaning "capital city" or "metropolis," and it is widely used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems. In Chinese, it appears in the names of historic cities like Beijing (北京, "Northern Capital") and Nanjing (南京, "Southern Capital"), while in Japanese it is central to Tokyo (東京, "Eastern Capital"). The character itself visually combines the radical for a roof or lid with elements suggesting a tall building or pavilion, evoking a sense of a grand or central place. Across East Asian cultures, it carries connotations of political, cultural, and economic importance, frequently appearing in place names and terms related to national or regional centers.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4EAC
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	京
HTML Hex Encoding	京
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xBA 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4EAC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004EAC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4eac

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	Numeric
Numeric Value	10000000000000000
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	A8CA
kCCCII	213061
kCNS1986	1-4B6B
kCNS1992	1-4B6B
kCangjie	YRF
kCantonese	ging1
kCihaiT	78.501
kCowles	1669
kDaeJaweon	0187.110
kDefinition	capital city
kEACC	213061
kFanqie	舉卿
kFenn	747A
kFennIndex	79.03
kFourCornerCode	0090.6
kGB0	3009
kGB1	3009
kGradeLevel	4
kGSR	0755a
kHangul	경:0E
kHanYu	10284.060
kHanyuPinyin	10284.060:jīng
kHKGlyph	0064
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0187.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10284.060
kIRGKangXi	0088.190
kIRG_GSource	G0-3E29
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A8CA
kIRG_JSource	J0-357E
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-CFAC
kIRG_KSource	K0-4C48
kIRG_TSource	T1-4B6B
kIRG_VSource	V1-4A60
kJapanese	キョウケイキンゲンみやこ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:1205
kJapaneseKun	MIYAKO
kJapaneseOn	KYOU KEI KIN
kJis0	2194
kKangXi	0088.190
kKarlgren	392
kKorean	KYENG
kLau	916
kMainlandTelegraph	0079
kMandarin	jīng
kMatthews	1127
kMeyerWempe	1158
kMojiJoho	MJ006475
kMorohashi	00299
kNelson	0295
kPhonetic	622
kPrimaryNumeric	10000000000000000
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1688+8.2.6
kRSUnicode	8.6
kSBGY	186.07
kSMSZD2003Index	14.16 99.21 176.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	jīng粵ging1
kTaiwanTelegraph	0079
kTang	giæng
kTGHZ2013	178.090:jīng
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	kinh
kXerox	244:242
kXHC1983	0594.070:jīng