U+6715 "朕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+6715 "朕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically used as the first-person royal pronoun, equivalent to "I" or "we" in English, exclusively adopted by Chinese emperors from the Qin dynasty onward to assert autocratic authority, though it originated in earlier texts as a common first-person pronoun. In modern usage, it appears primarily in historical dramas, formal imperial decrees, and literary works to evoke a sense of antiquity or monarchical speech, while its meaning as "to portend" or "a sign" is rarely employed outside classical contexts. Its structure combines the radical for "moon" or "body" on the left with the phonetic component "关" on the right, reflecting its evolution from a general self-referential term to a symbol of supreme imperial power in Chinese historical and linguistic heritage.