U+9870 "顰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
顰
U+9870 "顰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that means "to frown" or "to knit one's brows," often conveying a sense of worry, displeasure, or deep thought. It is composed of the radical 頁 (meaning "head" or "page") and phonetic components, and appears in classical literary works, most famously in the idiom "效顰" (xiào pín), which refers to the story of a woman imitating another's frown in an unattractive way, originating from the ancient philosopher Zhuangzi. This character is also used in Japanese and Korean contexts, where it retains similar meanings related to facial expressions of concern or anxiety.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9870 |
| 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 | 顰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 顰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA1 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9870 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009870 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9870 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C649 |
| kCCCII | 21605A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7C74 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7C74 |
| kCangjie | YCHHJ |
| kCantonese | pan4 |
| kCihaiT | 1483.501 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1929.230 |
| kDefinition | frown, knit brows |
| kEACC | 21605A |
| kFanqie | 符眞 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2140.6 |
| kGB1 | 8213 |
| kHangul | 빈:1N |
| kHanYu | 74396.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74396.080:pín |
| kHKGlyph | 4526 |
| kIICore | ATJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1929.230 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74396.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1410.290 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-722D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C649 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-707E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-877B |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6342 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7C74 |
| kJapanese | ヒン ヒ ビン ビ しかめる ひそめる ひそみ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIKAMERU HISOMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | HIN BIN |
| kJis0 | 8094 |
| kKangXi | 1410.290 |
| kKorean | PIN |
| kMandarin | pín |
| kMatthews | 5276 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028282 MJ028282:E0101 MJ028283:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 43737 43737:E0101 |
| kNelson | 2437 |
| kPhonetic | 1022 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7191+181.9.15 |
| kRSUnicode | 181.15 |
| kSBGY | 105.05 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+56AC<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "颦" U+98A6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 776.01 76.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | pín粵pan4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7360 |
| kTang | bhin |
| kTotalStrokes | 24 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 271:364 |