U+5AC9 "嫉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

嫉

U+5AC9 "嫉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) ideograph that primarily means jealousy, envy, or hatred, often carrying a strong connotation of resentment toward another's advantages or success. In Chinese, it is commonly used in words like "嫉妒" (jídù, meaning jealous or envious), and in Japanese, it appears in terms such as "嫉妬" (shitto, meaning jealousy). The character is composed of the radical "女" (woman) combined with the phonetic component "疾" (illness), suggesting an emotional state that can be corrosive or harmful. This ideograph is part of the Unified CJK character set, which standardizes characters shared across East Asian scripts, and it is widely used in literature, psychology, and everyday discourse to describe a complex social emotion.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5AC9
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	嫉
HTML Hex Encoding	嫉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xAB 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5AC9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005AC9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5ac9

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	B6FA
kCCCII	213A34
kCNS1986	1-6361
kCNS1992	1-6361
kCangjie	VKOK
kCantonese	zat6
kCihaiT	390.401
kCowles	4497
kDaeJaweon	0536.150
kDefinition	jealousy; be jealous of
kEACC	213A34
kFanqie	疾二秦悉
kFenn	476D
kFennIndex	36.04
kFourCornerCode	4043.4
kGB0	2821
kGB1	2821
kGradeLevel	6
kGSR	0494e
kHangul	질:0N
kHanYu	21073.010
kHanyuPinyin	21073.010:jí
kHKGlyph	0944
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0536.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21073.010
kIRGKangXi	0269.020
kIRG_GSource	G0-3C35
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B6FA
kIRG_JSource	J0-3C3B
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-EBBE
kIRG_KSource	K0-726C
kIRG_TSource	T1-6361
kJapanese	シツジチジシにくむねたむ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:3040
kJapaneseKun	NETAMU NIKUMU
kJapaneseOn	SHITSU
kJis0	2827
kKangXi	0269.020
kKorean	CIL
kLau	1349
kMainlandTelegraph	1271
kMandarin	jí
kMatthews	493
kMeyerWempe	3284
kMojiJoho	MJ009905
kMorohashi	06611
kNelson	1248
kPhonetic	73
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2279+38.3.10
kRSUnicode	38.10
kSBGY	356.01 470.23
kSemanticVariant	U+21731<kFenn
kSMSZD2003Index	160.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	jí粵zat6
kTaiwanTelegraph	1271
kTGHZ2013	156.110:jí
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	260:110
kXHC1983	0525.040:jí