U+696D "業" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
業
U+696D "業" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that broadly conveys the concept of "trade," "industry," "profession," or "karma" depending on the cultural and linguistic context. Originating from ancient Chinese script, it is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it appears in words related to business (e.g., 企業 meaning "enterprise"), occupation (e.g., 職業 meaning "occupation"), and in Buddhist contexts to denote karmic action or deeds. The character is structurally composed of radical components that suggest a sense of "work" or "undertaking," and it is frequently employed in both formal and everyday writings across these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+696D |
| 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 | 業 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 業 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA5 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x696D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000696D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u696d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B77E |
| kCCCII | 21452D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6446 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6446 |
| kCangjie | TCTD |
| kCantonese | jip6 |
| kCihaiT | 710.104 |
| kCowles | 1368 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0928.140 |
| kDefinition | profession, business, trade |
| kEACC | 21452D |
| kFanqie | 魚怯 |
| kFenn | 156G |
| kFennIndex | 621.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3290.4 |
| kGB1 | 5021 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0640a |
| kHangul | 업:0E |
| kHanYu | 21247.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yè(2095) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21247.070:yè |
| kHKGlyph | 1963 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0928.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21247.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0541.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5235 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B77E |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3648 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F8C7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6576 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6446 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5A41 |
| kJapanese | ギョウ ゴウ ギュウ わざ すでに |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | WAZA SUDENI |
| kJapaneseOn | GYOU GOU |
| kJis0 | 2240 |
| kKangXi | 0541.050 |
| kKarlgren | 229 |
| kKorean | EP |
| kLau | 3502 |
| kMandarin | yè |
| kMatthews | 7321 |
| kMeyerWempe | 902 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014227 |
| kMorohashi | 15170 |
| kNelson | 0143 |
| kPhonetic | 1589 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1728+75.4.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.9 |
| kSBGY | 545.12 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "业" U+4E1A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 326.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yè粵jip6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2814 |
| kTang | *ngiæp |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | nghiệp |
| kXerox | 242:064 |
| kXHC1983 | 1348.071:yè |