U+4E2D "中" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+4E2D "中" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character meaning "middle," "center," or "within," and it is widely used in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its visual form represents a vertical line passing through a rectangle, symbolizing the concept of centrality or the axis mundi. Beyond its literal meaning, it appears in key cultural terms such as "中国" (China, meaning "middle kingdom") and "中道" (the middle way in philosophy). This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, ensuring consistent digital representation across systems for over a billion users.
General Properties
Code Point
U+4E2D
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
中
HTML Hex Encoding
中
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE4 0xB8 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding
0x4E2D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00004E2D
C/C++/Java Escape
\u4e2d
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A4A4
kCCCII
213034
kCNS1986
1-4463
kCNS1992
1-4463
kCangjie
L
kCantonese
zung1
kCihaiT
37.402
kCowles
383 396
kDaeJaweon
0158.060
kDefinition
central; center, middle; in the midst of; hit (target); attain
kEACC
213034
kFanqie
陟弓 陟仲
kFenn
784A
kFennIndex
108.06 109.11
kFourCornerCode
5000.6
kGB0
5448
kGB1
5448
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
1007a
kHangul
중:0E
kHanYu
10028.100
kHanyuPinlu
zhōng(4875) zhòng(66)
kHanyuPinyin
10028.100:zhōng,zhòng
kHKGlyph
0020
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10028.100
kIRG_GSource
G0-5650
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A4A4
kIRG_JSource
J0-4366
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-EABB
kIRG_KSource
K0-7169
kIRG_TSource
T1-4463
kIRG_VSource
V1-4A35
kJapanese
チュウ チュ なか あたる あてる うち
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:113
kJapaneseKun
NAKA UCHI ATARU
kJapaneseOn
CHUU
kJis0
3570
kKangXi
0079.030
kKorean
CWUNG
kLau
1621 1622
kMainlandTelegraph
0022
kMandarin
zhōng
kMatthews
1504
kMeyerWempe
415 424
kMojiJoho
MJ006347
kMorohashi
00073
kNelson
0081
kPhonetic
322 332
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2980+2.1.3
kRSUnicode
2.3
kSBGY
024.22 344.04
kSMSZD2003Index
5.12 87.02
kSMSZD2003Readings
zhōng粵zung1
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+585A<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph
0022
kTang
*djiùng djiung
kTGHZ2013
480.020:zhōng 481.040:zhòng
kTotalStrokes
4
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
trung
kXerox
241:074
kXHC1983
1494.100:zhōng 1501.040:zhòng