U+5197 "冗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5197 "冗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meanings of "superfluous," "redundant," or "unnecessary," often describing something excessive or extra that is not needed. In Japanese, it is also used to mean "complicated" or "tedious," and it appears in words like "冗談" (joudan, meaning "joke" or "nonsense") and "冗長" (jouchou, meaning "redundancy" or "prolixity"). The character's structure combines the radical "冖" (a canopy or cover) with "几" (a table or small stand), historically suggesting something placed under a cover that is extraneous. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs, it is widely used in East Asian languages with consistent semantic roots across writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+5197
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 冗
HTML Hex Encoding 冗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x86 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5197
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005197
C/C++/Java Escape \u5197

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 A4BE
kCCCII 213336
kCNS1986 1-447D
kCNS1992 1-447D
kCangjie BHN
kCantonese jung2
kCihaiT 165.604
kDaeJaweon 0292.130
kDefinition excessive; superfluous
kEACC 213336
kFanqie 而隴
kFennIndex 234.11
kFourCornerCode 3721.7
kGB0 4063
kGB1 4063
kHangul 용:0N
kHanYu 10302.160
kIICore AGTJKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0292.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10302.160
kIRGKangXi 0130.130
kIRG_GSource G0-485F
kIRG_HSource HB1-A4BE
kIRG_JSource J0-3E69
kIRG_KPSource KP0-FAC1
kIRG_KSource K0-6937
kIRG_TSource T1-447D
kIRG_VSource V1-4C57
kJapanese ジョウ
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:172
kJapaneseKun MUDA
kJapaneseOn JOU
kJis0 3073
kKangXi 0130.130
kKorean YONG
kLau 3593
kMainlandTelegraph 0383
kMandarin rǒng
kMatthews 3180
kMeyerWempe 3946a
kMojiJoho MJ007329 MJ007329:E0101 MJ007330:E0102
kMorohashi 01566 01566:E0101
kNelson 0625 1277
kPhonetic 596 1477 1487
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2513+14.2.2 C+2513+16.2.2
kRSUnicode 14.2
kSemanticVariant U+2F817 U+5B82<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index 51.04 54.06
kTaiwanTelegraph 0383
kTang njiǒng
kTGHZ2013 316.030:rǒng
kTotalStrokes 4
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese nhũng
kXerox 263:143
kXHC1983 0969.080:rǒng