U+971C "霜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

霜

U+971C "霜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "frost," referring to the ice crystals that form on surfaces when the temperature drops below freezing, specifically the white deposit of frozen water vapor. It is composed of the "rain" radical (雨) on top, which provides a semantic hint about weather or precipitation, and a phonetic component from the character 相 (xiāng) beneath, which gives a clue to its pronunciation. This character is used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, as well as in Japanese (where it is read as shimo or sō), and it appears in compound words to describe frost or related cold weather phenomena, such as 霜降 (shuāngjiàng), which denotes the solar term "Frost's Descent" in the traditional East Asian calendar.

General Properties

Code Point	U+971C
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	霜
HTML Hex Encoding	霜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x9C 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x971C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000971C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u971c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	C1F7
kCCCII	215F64
kCNS1986	1-7624
kCNS1992	1-7624
kCangjie	MBDBU
kCantonese	soeng1
kCihaiT	1456.104
kCowles	3627
kDaeJaweon	1885.240
kDefinition	frost; crystallized; candied
kEACC	215F64
kFanqie	色莊
kFenn	847D
kFennIndex	467.01
kFourCornerCode	1096.3
kGB0	4310
kGB1	4310
kGSR	0731g
kHangul	상:0E
kHanYu	64070.020
kHanyuPinlu	shuāng(62)
kHanyuPinyin	64070.020:shuāng
kHKGlyph	4445
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1885.240
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64070.020
kIRGKangXi	1376.290
kIRG_GSource	G0-4B2A
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C1F7
kIRG_JSource	J0-417A
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E1E0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5F5C
kIRG_TSource	T1-7624
kIRG_VSource	V1-6B58
kJapanese	ソウショウしも
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:3399
kJapaneseKun	SHIMO
kJapaneseOn	SOU
kJis0	3390
kKangXi	1376.290
kKorean	SANG
kLau	2737
kMainlandTelegraph	7208
kMandarin	shuāng
kMatthews	5919
kMeyerWempe	2575
kMojiJoho	MJ027833
kMorohashi	42363
kNelson	5064
kPhonetic	1161 1165
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2812+173.8.9
kRSUnicode	173.9
kSBGY	176.27
kSemanticVariant	U+5B40<kLau
kSMSZD2003Index	761.11
kSMSZD2003Readings	shuāng粵soeng1
kTaiwanTelegraph	7208
kTang	*shriɑng
kTGHZ2013	344.060:shuāng
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	sương
kXerox	255:251
kXHC1983	1072.080:shuāng