U+5978 "奸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
奸
U+5978 "奸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "wicked," "evil," "treacherous," or "crafty," and it is historically associated with negative moral traits such as deception and disloyalty. In its most common modern usage, it appears in words like "奸诈" (treacherous) and "汉奸" (traitor to the Han Chinese), though it also carries an additional, more archaic meaning related to illicit sexual relations or adultery. The character is composed of the radical 女 (woman) on the left and the phonetic component 干 (gān) on the right, combining to form a classical symbol of moral corruption rather than any purely literal description.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5978 |
| 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 | 奸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 奸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA5 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5978 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005978 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5978 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A66C |
| kCCCII | 213947 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-476D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-476D |
| kCangjie | VMJ |
| kCantonese | gaan1 |
| kCihaiT | 378.101 |
| kCowles | 1467 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0518.040 |
| kDefinition | crafty, villainous, false |
| kEACC | 213947 |
| kFanqie | 古寒 古顔 |
| kFenn | 32F |
| kFennIndex | 59.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4144.0 |
| kGB0 | 2873 |
| kGB1 | 2873 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0139c |
| kHangul | 간:0N |
| kHanYu | 21025.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiān(20) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21025.010:gān,jiān |
| kHKGlyph | 0869 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0518.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21025.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0255.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3C69 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A66C |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5521 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDCC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A4C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-476D |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-515E |
| kJapanese | カン ケン おかす |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:577 |
| kJapaneseKun | OKASU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN |
| kJis0 | 5301 |
| kKangXi | 0255.040 |
| kKarlgren | 296 |
| kKorean | KAN |
| kLau | 808 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1169 |
| kMandarin | jiān |
| kMatthews | 818 |
| kMeyerWempe | 968 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009548 |
| kMorohashi | 06045 |
| kNelson | 1190 |
| kPhonetic | 545* 653 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4560+38.3.3 C+4560+51.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 38.3 |
| kSBGY | 122.42 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "奸" U+5978 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 151.11 197.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiān粵gaan1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1169 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 162.130:jiān |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "奸" U+5978 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "姦" U+59E6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | gian |
| kXerox | 256:165 |
| kXHC1983 | 0549.040:jiān |