U+5C32 "尲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

尲

U+5C32 "尲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character (hanzi) that has historically been used to convey the meaning of awkwardness, embarrassment, or an uncomfortable situation, often relating to social or physical unease. This character is composed of the radical "尢" (which signifies lameness or weakness) and the phonetic component "兼," and it appears in classical Chinese texts, including the foundational dictionary "Shuowen Jiezi," where it is defined as a state of being ill at ease or walking with difficulty. In modern usage, "尲" is extremely uncommon and is largely considered a variant or obsolete form, having been largely supplanted by more standard characters such as "尷尬" (gan ga) to express the concept of awkwardness in contemporary Mandarin Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5C32
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	尲
HTML Hex Encoding	尲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB0 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5C32
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005C32
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5c32

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

kCCCII	22225B
kCangjie	KUTXC
kCantonese	gaam1
kCihaiT	445.302
kDaeJaweon	0594.220
kDefinition	limp; be embarrassed
kEACC	22225B
kFanqie	古咸
kGB5	2353
kHanYu	10556.080
kHanyuPinyin	10556.080:gān
kIRGDaeJaweon	0594.220
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10556.080
kIRGKangXi	0299.070
kIRG_GSource	G5-3755
kIRG_JSource	J1-3A74
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3EE3
kIRG_KSource	K2-2E36
kJapanese	カンケン
kJapaneseOn	KAN KEN
kJis1	2684
kKangXi	0299.070
kLau	802
kMandarin	gān
kMatthews	831
kMeyerWempe	960b
kMojiJoho	MJ010323
kMorohashi	07604
kPhonetic	615
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21454+43.3.10
kRSUnicode	43.10
kSBGY	229.41
kSemanticVariant	U+5C37<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	177.06
kTaiwanTelegraph	1434
kTotalStrokes	13
kXerox	323:256
kXHC1983	0356.062:gān