U+4ED5 "仕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
仕
U+4ED5 "仕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to serve" or "an official." It is composed of the radical "亻" denoting a person, combined with the component "士" representing a scholar or gentleman, which together convey the idea of a person in service or a public servant. This character is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese, appearing in words like "仕官" (shiguan) for "government official" and "仕事" (shigoto) for "work" or "job." Its historical usage traces back to ancient Chinese texts, symbolizing the role of a person dedicated to duty or rank.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4ED5 |
| 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 | 仕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 仕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBB 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4ED5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004ED5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4ed5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A54B |
| kCCCII | 213070 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-456B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-456B |
| kCangjie | OG |
| kCantonese | si6 |
| kCihaiT | 85.202 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0195.100 |
| kDefinition | official; serve government |
| kEACC | 213070 |
| kFanqie | 鉏里 |
| kFenn | 65F |
| kFennIndex | 455.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2421.0 |
| kGB0 | 4243 |
| kGB1 | 4243 |
| kGSR | 0970d |
| kHangul | 사:0E |
| kHanYu | 10112.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10112.030:shì |
| kHKGlyph | 0079 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0195.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10112.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0092.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4A4B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A54B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3B45 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E0C8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E42 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-456B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4A6D |
| kJapanese | シ ジ つかえる つかまつる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:3542 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUKAERU TSUKAMATSURU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI JI |
| kJis0 | 2737 |
| kKangXi | 0092.070 |
| kKorean | SA |
| kLau | 2775 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0099 |
| kMandarin | shì |
| kMatthews | 5777 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2914a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006516 |
| kMorohashi | 00368 |
| kNelson | 0362 |
| kPhonetic | 1181 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2195+9.2.3 C+2195+33.3.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.3 |
| kSBGY | 253.19 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 18.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shì粵si6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0099 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 336.110:shì |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | sĩ |
| kXerox | 262:326 |
| kXHC1983 | 1050.010:shì |