U+5F79 "役" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
役
U+5F79 "役" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (also used in Japanese and Korean) that fundamentally conveys the concept of service, labor, or military duty. Its composition combines the radical for "to go" or "to walk" (彳) with the phonetic component indicating a specific act, and historically it has been associated with forced labor, corvée, or military service under a ruler or state. In modern usage, this character appears in compound words such as 役割 (yakuwari, meaning "role" or "duty") or 戦役 (sen'eki, meaning "military campaign"), retaining a core semantic link to obligation, task, or the act of serving a purpose.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5F79 |
| 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 | 役 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 役 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBD 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5F79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005F79 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5f79 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A7D0 |
| kCCCII | 213D5B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4A32 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4A32 |
| kCangjie | HOHNE |
| kCantonese | jik6 |
| kCihaiT | 509.403 |
| kCowles | 5211 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0685.120 |
| kDefinition | service; a servant, laborer; to serve |
| kEACC | 213D5B |
| kFanqie | 營隻 |
| kFenn | 399E |
| kFennIndex | 223.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2724.7 |
| kGB0 | 5059 |
| kGB1 | 5059 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kGSR | 0851a |
| kHangul | 역:0E |
| kHanYu | 20814.230 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yì(123) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20814.230:yì |
| kHKGlyph | 1263 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0685.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20814.230 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0365.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-525B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A7D0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4C72 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F8D7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6635 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4A32 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-545C |
| kJapanese | ヤク エキ つとめ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:793 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUTOME EDACHI |
| kJapaneseOn | YAKU EKI |
| kJis0 | 4482 |
| kKangXi | 0365.180 |
| kKorean | YEK |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1763 |
| kMandarin | yì |
| kMatthews | 3028 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3899 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011283 |
| kMorohashi | 10057 |
| kNelson | 1598 |
| kPhonetic | 174 1557 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3838+60.3.4 C+3838+79.4.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 60.4 |
| kSBGY | 519.28 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 212.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yì粵jik6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1763 |
| kTang | *iuɛk |
| kTGHZ2013 | 434.070:yì |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | dịch |
| kXerox | 251:305 |
| kXHC1983 | 1371.150:yì |