U+8271 "艱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
艱
U+8271 "艱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji character used in Chinese and Japanese writing that conveys the meaning of difficulty, hardship, or adversity. Composed of components related to earth and the concept of opposition, its structure visually suggests the idea of struggling against obstacles, often in contexts like labor or challenging circumstances. In Japanese, it appears in words such as "困難" (konnan, meaning difficulty) and is also present in classical Chinese texts where it emphasizes trials or arduous endeavors.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8271 |
| 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 | 艱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 艱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x89 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8271 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008271 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8271 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C17D |
| kCCCII | 21544E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7529 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7529 |
| kCangjie | TOAV |
| kCantonese | gaan1 |
| kCihaiT | 1119.601 |
| kCowles | 1465 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1473.020 |
| kDefinition | difficult, hard; distressing |
| kEACC | 21544E |
| kFanqie | 古閑 |
| kFenn | 107C |
| kFennIndex | 58.12 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4753.2 |
| kGB1 | 2872 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0480c |
| kHangul | 간:0N |
| kHanYu | 53171.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiān(211) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53171.050:jiān |
| kHKGlyph | 3400 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1473.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53171.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1013.290 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3C68 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C17D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6765 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDDE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A5E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7529 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6451 |
| kJapanese | カン ケン かたい なやむ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | NAYAMU KATAI |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN KEN |
| kJis0 | 7169 |
| kKangXi | 1013.290 |
| kKarlgren | 312 |
| kKorean | KAN |
| kLau | 807 |
| kMandarin | jiān |
| kMatthews | 834 |
| kMeyerWempe | 966 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021468 MJ021468:E0101 MJ021469:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 30600 30600:E0101 |
| kNelson | 3888 |
| kPhonetic | 546 575 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6320+138.6.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 138.11 |
| kSBGY | 129.10 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "艰" U+8270 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 570.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiān粵gaan1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5329 |
| kTang | *gɛn |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | gian |
| kXerox | 253:060 |
| kXHC1983 | 0549.011:jiān |