U+905C "遜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
遜
U+905C "遜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "humble," "modest," or "to yield," and it is also used in Japanese as the kanji "son" in words like "sonkei" (respect) and "kenson" (humility). In modern Simplified Chinese, the character is often replaced by the variant "逊," but in Traditional Chinese and Japanese, "遜" retains its full strokes and classical usage. It comprises the components for "辵" (walking or movement) and "孫" (grandchild or descendant), hinting at a conceptual connection to stepping back in a lineage or deferring to others. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+905C |
| 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 | 遜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 遜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x81 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x905C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000905C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u905c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BBB9 |
| kCCCII | 215C45 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6B41 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6B41 |
| kCangjie | YNDF |
| kCantonese | seon3 |
| kCihaiT | 1329.401 |
| kCowles | 3744 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1757.070 |
| kDefinition | humble, modest; yield |
| kEACC | 215C45 |
| kFanqie | 蘇困 |
| kFenn | 887E |
| kFennIndex | 196.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3230.9 |
| kGB1 | 4923 |
| kGSR | 0434e |
| kHangul | 손:0N |
| kHanYu | 63874.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xùn(9) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63874.030:xùn |
| kHKGlyph | 4142 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1757.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63874.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1263.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5137 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BBB9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-423D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E3CE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6161 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6B41 |
| kJapanese | ソン へりくだる ゆずる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | YUZURU HERIKUDARU SHITAGAU |
| kJapaneseOn | SON |
| kJis0 | 3429 |
| kKangXi | 1263.030 |
| kKorean | SON |
| kMandarin | xùn |
| kMatthews | 5545 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2886 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ026079 MJ026078:E0102 MJ026079:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 39038 39038:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4730 |
| kPhonetic | 1242 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2845+162.3.10 V+7726+162.4.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 162.10 |
| kSBGY | 399.16 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+613B<kFenn |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "逊" U+900A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 700.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xùn粵seon3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6676 |
| kTang | suə̀n |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 256:326 |
| kXHC1983 | 1316.021:xùn |