U+4EC4 "仄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
仄
U+4EC4 "仄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "oblique," "slanting," or "narrow," and it is frequently used in classical Chinese phonology to refer to the oblique tones (仄聲) in tonal patterns, contrasting with the level or even tones (平聲). As a Han character, it also carries secondary meanings related to "to feel uneasy" or "to turn sideways" in literary contexts, and it appears in compound words like "仄日" (setting sun) or "仄径" (narrow path). In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encoded for use in digital text to represent this specific logogram across East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4EC4 |
| 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 | 仄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 仄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBB 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4EC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004EC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4ec4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4B7 |
| kCCCII | 213069 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4476 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4476 |
| kCangjie | MO |
| kCantonese | zak1 |
| kCihaiT | 83.402 |
| kCowles | 122 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0193.040 |
| kDefinition | slanting, oblique; oblique tones |
| kEACC | 213069 |
| kFanqie | 阻力 |
| kFenn | 429G |
| kFennIndex | 10.03 22.14 549.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7128.0 |
| kGB0 | 5638 |
| kGB1 | 5638 |
| kGSR | 0924d |
| kHangul | 측:0N |
| kHanYu | 10103.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10103.070:zè |
| kHKGlyph | 0072 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0193.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10103.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0091.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5846 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4B7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-503C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EEE1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7631 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4476 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4A66 |
| kJapanese | ソク ショク シキ かたむく ほのか |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3513 |
| kJapaneseKun | KATAMUKU HONOKA |
| kJapaneseOn | SOKU SHOKU SHIKI |
| kJis0 | 4828 |
| kKangXi | 0091.120 |
| kKarlgren | 59 |
| kKorean | CHUK |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0090 |
| kMandarin | zè |
| kMatthews | 6754 |
| kMeyerWempe | 134 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006500 |
| kMorohashi | 00352 |
| kNelson | 0815 |
| kPhonetic | 58 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4117+9.2.2 C+4117+27.2.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.2 |
| kSBGY | 528.46 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 17.10 79.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zè粵zak1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0090 |
| kTang | *jriək jriək |
| kTGHZ2013 | 460.140:zè |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | trắc |
| kXerox | 265:314 |
| kXHC1983 | 1445.030:zè |