U+5179 "兹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
兹
U+5179 "兹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically means "this" or "here" and is also used as a literary particle indicating the present time or location, often appearing in classical texts and formal writing. In modern usage, it is commonly found in words like "如今" meaning "now" or "兹有" meaning "hereby there is," and it serves as a component in certain compound terms, retaining its function as a demonstrative and temporal marker in East Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5179 |
| 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 | 兹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 兹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x85 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5179 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005179 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5179 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-2E7B |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2E7B |
| kCangjie | TVII |
| kCantonese | zi1 |
| kDefinition | now, here; this; time, year |
| kEACC | 215521 |
| kFanqie | 疾之 子之 |
| kFennIndex | 584.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8073 |
| kGB0 | 5540 |
| kGB1 | 5540 |
| kHanYu | 10248.060 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10248.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1031.381 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5748 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-945A |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-007292 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-59F0 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2E7B |
| kJapanese | ジ ここ ここに しげる |
| kTGH | 2013:1653 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIGERU MASU MUSHIRO |
| kJapaneseOn | JI SHI |
| kKangXi | 1031.381 |
| kKorean | CA |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5417 |
| kMandarin | zī |
| kMatthews | 6935 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007292 |
| kNelson | 0592 |
| kPhonetic | 132 1170A |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14201+140.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 12.7 52.6 |
| kSBGY | 063.11 063.12 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7386<kMatthews U+8332<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 198.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zī粵zi1 cí粵ci4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 055.050:cí 490.210:zī |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "茲" U+8332 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 0172.190:cí 1529.020:zī |