U+5109 "儉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
儉
U+5109 "儉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that traditionally means "frugal" or "economical," often associated with the virtue of thrift and restraint in personal conduct and resource use. This character is composed of the radical for "person" (亻) on the left, suggesting human action or quality, and a phonetic component on the right that contributes to its pronunciation, typically read as "jiǎn" in Mandarin. It appears in classical texts like the Analects of Confucius, where it denotes a moral principle of moderation, and remains in modern usage across Chinese, Japanese (as "ken"), and Korean (as "geom") scripts within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5109 |
| 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 | 儉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 儉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x84 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5109 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005109 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5109 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BBFC |
| kCCCII | 213261 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6C27 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6C27 |
| kCangjie | OOMO |
| kCantonese | gim6 |
| kCihaiT | 128.505 |
| kCowles | 1659 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0252.110 |
| kDefinition | temperate, frugal, economical |
| kEACC | 213261 |
| kFanqie | 巨險 |
| kFenn | 440E |
| kFennIndex | 59.13 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2828.6 |
| kGB1 | 2883 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0613e |
| kHangul | 검:0E |
| kHanYu | 10226.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiǎn(9) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10226.060:jiǎn |
| kHKGlyph | 0249 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0252.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10226.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0119.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3C73 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BBFC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-512D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CEE2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4B7B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6C27 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4C32 |
| kJapanese | ケン ゲン つづまやか |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010:U+5039 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUZUMAYAKA |
| kJapaneseOn | KEN |
| kJis0 | 4913 |
| kKangXi | 0119.120 |
| kKorean | KEM |
| kLau | 907 |
| kMandarin | jiǎn |
| kMatthews | 848 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1145 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007140 |
| kMorohashi | 01190 |
| kNelson | 0547 |
| kPhonetic | 182 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4196+9.2.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.13 |
| kSBGY | 334.18 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "俭" U+4FED CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 41.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiǎn粵gim6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0313 |
| kTang | ghyɛ̌m |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | kiệm |
| kXerox | 255:363 |
| kXHC1983 | 0553.101:jiǎn |