U+4FED "俭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+4FED "俭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "frugal," "thrifty," or "economical," and it is composed of the radical for "person" on the left and a phonetic component on the right. This ideograph is used in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese writing systems, though it appears more commonly in Simplified Chinese as the standard form for expressing the concept of moderation in spending or resource use. In East Asian cultures, the character carries a positive connotation of prudent management and is frequently found in Confucian texts, proverbs, and modern contexts emphasizing sustainability or financial caution. Its encoded form allows consistent digital representation across platforms, ensuring that the character's semantic value is preserved in text communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+4FED
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 俭
HTML Hex Encoding 俭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE4 0xBF 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x4FED
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00004FED
C/C++/Java Escape \u4fed

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
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

kCCCII 273261
kCangjie OOMM
kCantonese gim6
kDefinition temperate, frugal, economical
kEACC 273261
kFourCornerCode 2821
kGB0 2883
kHanYu 10163.080
kHanyuPinlu jiǎn(9)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10163.080
kIRGKangXi 0106.041
kIRG_GSource G0-3C73
kTGH 2013:1567
kKangXi 0106.041
kMainlandTelegraph 0313
kMandarin jiǎn
kPhonetic 182*
kRSUnicode 9.7
kSMSZD2003Index 31.08
kTGHZ2013 164.070:jiǎn
kTotalStrokes 9
kTraditionalVariant "儉" U+5109 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0553.100:jiǎn