U+5997 "妗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+5997 "妗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both traditional and simplified writing systems. It is pronounced "jìn" in Mandarin and primarily refers to a maternal uncle's wife, making it a term for "aunt" or specifically "wife of one's mother's brother." In the context of Chinese kinship terminology, this character denotes a distinct familial relationship, often appearing in classical literature and modern conversations to address or describe that relative. Its structure combines the radical for "woman" (女) with the phonetic component "今" , reflecting its semantic and phonetic composition as a logogram in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified script.
General Properties
Code Point
U+5997
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
妗
HTML Hex Encoding
妗
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xA6 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5997
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005997
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5997
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
CAB5
kCCCII
21797C
kCNS1986
2-2355
kCNS1992
2-2355
kCangjie
VOIN
kCantonese
kam5
kCihaiT
380.101
kCowles
1916
kDaeJaweon
0521.010
kDefinition
wife of mother's brother
kEACC
21797C
kFanqie
處占 許兼 許咸 巨禁
kFenn
434K
kFennIndex
76.10
kFourCornerCode
4842.7
kGB0
7001
kGB1
7001
kHangul
금:0N
kHanYu
21032.030
kHanyuPinyin
21032.030:xiān,jìn
kIICore
AGHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21032.030
kIRG_GSource
G0-6621
kIRG_HSource
HB2-CAB5
kIRG_JSource
J1-392D
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-D1FC
kIRG_KSource
K0-5052
kIRG_TSource
T2-2355
kJapanese
セン ケン カン キン ゴン
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3811
kJapaneseKun
UTSUKUSHII YOROKOBUSAMA
kJapaneseOn
SEN KEN KAN KIN GON
kJis1
2513
kKangXi
0256.210
kKarlgren
386
kKorean
KUM
kLau
1656
kMainlandTelegraph
1180
kMandarin
jìn
kMatthews
1054
kMeyerWempe
1028
kMojiJoho
MJ009582
kMorohashi
06087
kPhonetic
565
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+19307+38.3.4
kRSUnicode
38.4
kSBGY
226.43 229.25 230.21
kSMSZD2003Index
153.01
kSMSZD2003Readings
jìn粵kam5
kTaiwanTelegraph
1180
kTGHZ2013
177.030:jìn
kTotalStrokes
7
kUnihanCore2020
GHKMPT
kXerox
277:264
kXHC1983
0594.060:jìn