U+751F "生" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
生
U+751F "生" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character that broadly conveys the concepts of life, birth, and growth, often translated as "to be born," "life," or "living." It is composed of the radical for "life" or "birth" and is deeply embedded in East Asian languages, appearing in common words like "学生" (student, literally "learning life") and "生活" (life or livelihood). In addition to its literal meanings, "生" carries philosophical and cultural weight, representing vitality and the natural process of coming into existence, and it is frequently used in names, idioms, and traditional texts across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+751F |
| 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 | 生 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 生 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x94 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x751F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000751F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u751f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A5CD |
| kCCCII | 214B79 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-466D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-466D |
| kCangjie | HQM |
| kCantonese | sang1 |
| kCihaiT | 906.503 |
| kCowles | 3802 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1162.040 |
| kDefinition | life, living, lifetime; birth |
| kEACC | 214B79 |
| kFanqie | 所庚 所敬 |
| kFenn | 41A |
| kFennIndex | 445.10 446.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2510.0 |
| kGB0 | 4190 |
| kGB1 | 4190 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0812a |
| kHangul | 생:0E |
| kHanYu | 42575.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shēng(4790) sheng(1071) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42575.010:shēng |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⽣[U+2F63]:42575.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 2603 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1162.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42575.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0754.260 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-497A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A5CD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4038 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5F6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5F66 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-466D |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5F46 |
| kJapanese | セイ ショウ ソウ いきる いかす いける うまれる うむ おう はえる はやす き なま うぶ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:263 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAERU OU UMARERU |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI SHOU |
| kJis0 | 3224 |
| kKangXi | 0754.260 |
| kKorean | SAYNG |
| kLau | 2616 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3932 |
| kMandarin | shēng |
| kMatthews | 5738 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2601 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ017618 |
| kMorohashi | 21670 |
| kNelson | 2991 |
| kPhonetic | 1107A 1130 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2652+100.5.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 100.0 |
| kSBGY | 187.01 430.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 436.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shēng粵sang1,saang1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3932 |
| kTang | *shræng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 332.060:shēng |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | sinh |
| kXerox | 241:106 |
| kXHC1983 | 1024.010:shēng |