U+957F "长" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
长
U+957F "长" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that functions as both an adjective and a verb, primarily meaning "long" in terms of distance or duration, as well as "to grow" or "to develop." It is a simplified form of the traditional character 長, used in modern Mandarin Chinese and other East Asian languages, and appears frequently in common words such as 长度 (length) and 长大 (to grow up). Historically, the character’s pictographic origins depict a person with long hair, symbolizing the concept of extension or seniority.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+957F |
| 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 | 长 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 长 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x95 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x957F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000957F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u957f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275E4C |
| kCangjie | LHMO |
| kCantonese | coeng4 |
| kDefinition | long; length; excel in; leader |
| kEACC | 275E4C |
| kFourCornerCode | 4273 |
| kGB0 | 1904 |
| kHanYu | 10034.010 64052.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhǎng(1879) cháng(1179) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64052.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1329.521 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3324 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8BEB |
| kTGH | 2013:127 |
| kKangXi | 1329.521 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7022 |
| kMandarin | zhǎng |
| kPhonetic | 123 |
| kRSUnicode | 168'.0 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 8.05 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 038.110:cháng 466.110:zhǎng |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "長" U+9577 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 0121.040:cháng 1456.020:zhǎng |