U+518F "冏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+518F "冏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically represents a patterned window or an open, bright space, often evoking the image of light streaming through a lattice. In modern usage, particularly in online and popular culture, this character has gained a second life as a stylized emoticon or meme due to its resemblance to a surprised or perplexed face, with the "口" component appearing as a mouth and the inner strokes suggesting wide eyes or furrowed brows. It is occasionally used interchangeably with the similar but nonstandard character "囧," which has become more famous in internet slang for expressing awkwardness or embarrassment. Despite its digital fame, 冏 remains a legitimate but relatively rare character in classical Chinese texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+518F
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	冏
HTML Hex Encoding	冏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x86 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x518F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000518F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u518f

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

kBigFive	CA6A
kCCCII	21696E
kCNS1986	2-232C
kCNS1992	2-232C
kCangjie	BCR
kCantonese	gwing2
kCihaiT	165.203
kDaeJaweon	0291.020
kDefinition	(archaic form of 炯) light, bright
kEACC	21696E
kFourCornerCode	7722.0
kGB3	1655
kGB8	9010
kGSR	0763a
kHangul	경:1N
kHanYu	10100.120
kHanyuPinyin	10100.120:jiǒng,jiōng
kIICore	CK
kIRGDaeJaweon	0291.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10100.120
kIRGKangXi	0129.120
kIRG_GSource	G3-3057
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CA6A
kIRG_JSource	J0-5148
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-374E
kIRG_KSource	K1-584A
kIRG_TSource	T2-232C
kJapanese	ケイ キョウ あきらか
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:6598
kJapaneseKun	AKIRAKA
kJapaneseOn	KEI KYOU
kJis0	4940
kKangXi	0129.120
kKarlgren	409
kKorean	KYENG
kMainlandTelegraph	0376
kMandarin	jiǒng
kMojiJoho	MJ007315
kMorohashi	01528
kPhonetic	742
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4223+13.2.5
kRSUnicode	13.5
kSMSZD2003Index	50.08 95.26
kSMSZD2003Readings	jiǒng粵gwing2
kTaiwanTelegraph	0376
kTang	guěng
kTGHZ2013	181.100:jiǒng
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	310:275
kXHC1983	0604.110:jiǒng