U+9EE5 "黥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
黥
U+9EE5 "黥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that historically refers to a form of punishment involving tattooing the face or forehead, often used in ancient China and other East Asian cultures as a means of branding criminals or slaves with indelible markings. This ideograph combines the radical for "black" or "dark" (黑) with a phonetic component (京), reflecting its association with ink or blackening the skin through tattooing. Beyond its literal meaning, the character appears in classical texts and literature, such as in the historical records of the Qin and Han dynasties, where it denoted a specific legal penalty, and it later extended metaphorically to describe stigmatization or indelible disgrace.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9EE5 |
| 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 | 黥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 黥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBB 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9EE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009EE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9ee5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F5B4 |
| kCCCII | 235E59 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6B42 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6B42 |
| kCangjie | WFYRF |
| kCantonese | king4 |
| kCihaiT | 1563.506 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2055.090 |
| kDefinition | to tattoo; to brand the face of criminals |
| kEACC | 235E59 |
| kFanqie | 渠京 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6039.6 |
| kGB0 | 8784 |
| kGB1 | 8784 |
| kGSR | 0755g |
| kHangul | 경:1N |
| kHanYu | 74751.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74751.070:qíng |
| kIICore | BGT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2055.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74751.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1520.260 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7774 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F5B4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-735D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-9107 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-585D |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6B42 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-916A |
| kJapanese | ゲイ ケイ ギョウ いれずみ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6433 |
| kJapaneseKun | IREZUMI |
| kJapaneseOn | GEI KEI |
| kJis0 | 8361 |
| kKangXi | 1520.260 |
| kKarlgren | 392 |
| kKorean | KYENG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7823 |
| kMandarin | qíng |
| kMatthews | 1159 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1172i |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029919 MJ029919:E0101 MJ029920:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 48123 48123:E0101 |
| kNelson | 5410 |
| kPhonetic | 622 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7440+203.12.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 203.8 |
| kSBGY | 187.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 826.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qíng粵king4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7823 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 304.080:qíng |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 275:320 |
| kXHC1983 | 0934.020:qíng |