U+4E25 "严" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+4E25 "严" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "strict", "severe", or "tight", and it is widely used in both classical and modern written Chinese. This character is composed of a single radical and belongs to the set of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs, which are encoded in Unicode to support digital text across East Asian languages. In Mandarin Chinese, it is pronounced as "yán" and appears in common words such as "严重" meaning "serious" or "严肃" meaning "solemn". Its meaning often conveys a sense of rigor, harshness, or exacting standards, and it is also a common surname in Chinese culture.