U+773C "眼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
眼
U+773C "眼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages to represent the human eye or vision, originally depicting an eye in Oracle Bone Script. Its meaning extends metaphorically to concepts like sight, perception, or a small aperture such as the eye of a needle, and it serves as a common component in compound words like 眼睛 (eye) or 眼镜 (glasses). In computing, this character is encoded as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, allowing electronic representation of this essential visual organ symbol across East Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+773C |
| 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 | 眼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 眼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x9C 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x773C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000773C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u773c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B2B4 |
| kCCCII | 214D52 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5C39 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5C39 |
| kCangjie | BUAV |
| kCantonese | ngaan5 |
| kCihaiT | 950.403 |
| kCowles | 2999 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1222.260 |
| kDefinition | eye; eyelet, hole, opening |
| kEACC | 214D52 |
| kFanqie | 五限 |
| kFenn | 359A |
| kFennIndex | 625.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6703.2 |
| kGB0 | 4959 |
| kGB1 | 4959 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0416l |
| kHangul | 안:0E |
| kHanYu | 42488.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yǎn(2215) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42488.040:yǎn,wěn |
| kHKGlyph | 2750 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1222.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42488.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0807.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-515B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B2B4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3463 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F7C3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6451 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5C39 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6047 |
| kJapanese | ガン ゲン ゴン まなこ め |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2263 |
| kJapaneseKun | MANAKO |
| kJapaneseOn | GAN GEN GON |
| kJis0 | 2067 |
| kKangXi | 0807.110 |
| kKarlgren | 312 |
| kKorean | AN |
| kLau | 2315 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4190 |
| kMandarin | yǎn |
| kMatthews | 7400 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2016 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018208 |
| kMorohashi | 23318 |
| kNelson | 3140 |
| kPhonetic | 575 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1567+109.5.6 C+1567+138.6.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 109.6 |
| kSBGY | 288.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 461.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yǎn粵ngaan5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4190 |
| kTang | *ngɛ̌n |
| kTGHZ2013 | 423.110:yǎn |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | nhản nhãn nhặn nhẫn nhởn |
| kXerox | 242:306 |
| kXHC1983 | 1329.090:yǎn |