U+50E7 "僧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
僧
U+50E7 "僧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a Buddhist monk or a Buddhist priest, carrying deep cultural and religious significance across East Asia. It is composed of the radical for "person" (亻) on the left, indicating a human being, and the phonetic component 曾 on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. This character is used in various contexts, such as in the word "僧人" (sēngrén) meaning "monk," and appears in classical literature, historical texts, and modern writing to denote members of the Buddhist clergy, often associated with celibacy, meditation, and spiritual discipline.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+50E7 |
| 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 | 僧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 僧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x83 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x50E7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000050E7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u50e7 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B9AC |
| kCCCII | 21324E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6772 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6772 |
| kCangjie | OCWA |
| kCantonese | zang1 |
| kCihaiT | 126.301 |
| kCowles | 3599 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0248.200 |
| kDefinition | Buddhist priest, monk; san of Sanskrit sangha |
| kEACC | 4B324E |
| kFanqie | 蘇增 |
| kFenn | 832F |
| kFennIndex | 432.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2826.6 |
| kGB0 | 4114 |
| kGB1 | 4114 |
| kHangul | 승:0E |
| kHanYu | 10222.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10222.010:sēng,céng |
| kHKGlyph | 0232 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0248.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10222.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0117.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-492E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B9AC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-414E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E4F1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-632C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6772 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4C2B |
| kJapanese | ソウ ショウ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:3127 |
| kJapaneseKun | BOUZU |
| kJapaneseOn | SOU |
| kJis0 | 3346 |
| kKangXi | 0117.140 |
| kKorean | SUNG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0300 |
| kMandarin | sēng |
| kMatthews | 5453 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2551 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007095 MJ030245:FE00 MJ007095:E0102 MJ007094:E0103 MJ007096:E0104 MJ030245:E0105 |
| kMorohashi | 01117:FE00 01076:E0103 01117:E0105 |
| kNelson | 0536 0538 |
| kPhonetic | 68 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2768+9.2.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.12 |
| kSBGY | 201.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 40.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sēng粵zang1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0300 |
| kTang | *səng səng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 322.050:sēng |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tăng |
| kXerox | 256:140 |
| kXHC1983 | 0990.030:sēng |