U+77EF "矯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
矯
U+77EF "矯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to correct, rectify, or straighten, often carrying the connotation of adjusting something crooked or false to make it right. It is also used in the context of pretending, feigning, or acting with deliberate pretense, as seen in words like 矯正 (jiàozhèng, to correct) or 矯情 (jiǎoqíng, to be affected or pretentious). This character is composed of the radical 矢 (arrow) and the phonetic component 喬 (tall or lofty), and it appears in traditional East Asian texts across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, where it retains similar semantic nuances related to amendment or artifice.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+77EF |
| 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 | 矯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 矯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0x9F 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x77EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000077EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u77ef |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C142 |
| kCCCII | 214E27 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-744C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-744C |
| kCangjie | OKHKB |
| kCantonese | giu2 |
| kCihaiT | 957.302 |
| kCowles | 1705 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1238.260 |
| kDefinition | correct, rectify, straighten out |
| kEACC | 214E27 |
| kFanqie | 居夭 |
| kFenn | 583I |
| kFennIndex | 50.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8242.7 |
| kGB1 | 2935 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kGSR | 1138l |
| kHangul | 교:0E |
| kHanYu | 42586.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42586.130:jiǎo,jiāo |
| kHKGlyph | 2801 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1238.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42586.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0825.240 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3D43 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C142 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-363A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D0D3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4E6C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-744C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-605F |
| kJapanese | キョウ ためる いつわる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | ITSUWARU TAMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KYOU |
| kJis0 | 2226 |
| kKangXi | 0825.240 |
| kKarlgren | 359 |
| kKorean | KYO |
| kMandarin | jiǎo |
| kMatthews | 692 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1187a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018407 |
| kMorohashi | 24015 |
| kNelson | 3175 |
| kPhonetic | 636 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1714+111.5.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 111.12 |
| kSBGY | 298.35 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "矫" U+77EB CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 467.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiǎo粵giu2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4255 |
| kTang | gyɛ̌u |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | kiểu |
| kXerox | 261:366 |
| kXHC1983 | 0567.071:jiáo 0568.081:jiǎo |