U+7EC5 "绅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
绅
U+7EC5 "绅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "gentleman" or "girdle" in classical and modern contexts, often referring to a sash or belt worn by officials in ancient China, and by extension, a person of social standing or refinement. It is composed of the radical 纟 (silk) on the left, indicating a textile connection, and the phonetic component 申 (shēn) on the right, which also carries associations with extension or declaration. In contemporary usage, it appears in words like "绅士" (shēnshì) meaning "gentleman," and is a common character in both written and spoken Chinese, reflecting its historical tie to etiquette and social hierarchy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7EC5 |
| 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 | 绅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 绅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xBB 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7EC5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007EC5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7ec5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27512D |
| kCangjie | VMLWL |
| kCantonese | san1 |
| kDefinition | girdle; tie, bind; gentry |
| kEACC | 27512D |
| kFourCornerCode | 2510 |
| kGB0 | 4180 |
| kHanYu | 53380.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shēn(16) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53380.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0944.251 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4970 |
| kTGH | 2013:1339 |
| kKangXi | 0944.251 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4800 |
| kMandarin | shēn |
| kRSUnicode | 120'.5 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 330.090:shēn |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "紳" U+7D33 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1017.050:shēn |