U+5C37 "尷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

尷

U+5C37 "尷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of embarrassment, awkwardness, or shame, and is most commonly used in the compound word "尷尬" (gān gà), which describes an awkward or embarrassing situation. This character is composed of two main radicals: the left radical "尢" (meaning lame or crooked) and the right radical "監" (meaning oversee or supervise), combining to visually and conceptually suggest a sense of being constrained or out of place. It is classified under the Kangxi radical 43 (尢) and is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in the Unicode standard, which encodes characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. The character appears in traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese (as 尴), Japanese kanji, and Korean hanja, maintaining a consistent meaning across these languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5C37
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	尷
HTML Hex Encoding	尷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB0 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5C37
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005C37
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5c37

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	C0AA
kCCCII	213B4C
kCNS1986	1-7353
kCNS1992	1-7353
kCangjie	KUSIT
kCantonese	gaam1
kCihaiT	445.303
kDaeJaweon	0595.020
kDefinition	embarrassed; ill at ease
kEACC	213B4C
kFanqie	古咸
kFourCornerCode	4801.1
kGB1	6247
kGradeLevel	6
kHanYu	10557.150
kHanyuPinyin	10557.150:gān
kHKGlyph	1062
kIICore	ATHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	0595.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10557.150
kIRGKangXi	0299.221
kIRG_GSource	G1-5E4F
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C0AA
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-010327
kIRG_TSource	T1-7353
kJapanese	カンケン
kJapaneseOn	KAN KEN
kKangXi	0299.221
kLau	802
kMandarin	gān
kMatthews	831
kMojiJoho	MJ010327
kMorohashi	07624
kPhonetic	544
kRSUnicode	43.14
kSemanticVariant	U+5C32<kLau,kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"尴" U+5C34 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	177.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	gān粵gaam1,gaam3
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	273:367
kXHC1983	0356.061:gān