U+8271 "艱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

艱
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+8271 "艱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji character used in Chinese and Japanese writing that conveys the meaning of difficulty, hardship, or adversity. Composed of components related to earth and the concept of opposition, its structure visually suggests the idea of struggling against obstacles, often in contexts like labor or challenging circumstances. In Japanese, it appears in words such as "困難" (konnan, meaning difficulty) and is also present in classical Chinese texts where it emphasizes trials or arduous endeavors.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+8271
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
艱
HTML Hex Encoding
艱
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x89 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8271
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008271
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8271

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check
Yes
NFD Quick Check
Yes
NFKC Quick Check
Yes
NFKD Quick Check
Yes
Numeric Type
None
Numeric Value
NaN
Line Break
Ideographic
East Asian Width
Wide
Script
Han
Script Extensions
Han
Indic Syllabic Category
Other
ID Start
Yes
XID Start
Yes
ID Continue
Yes
XID Continue
Yes
Alphabetic
Yes
Vertical Orientation
Upright
Grapheme Base
Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break
Other
Word Break
Other
Sentence Break
OLetter
Ideographic
Yes
Unified Ideograph
Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
C17D
kCCCII
21544E
kCNS1986
1-7529
kCNS1992
1-7529
kCangjie
TOAV
kCantonese
gaan1
kCihaiT
1119.601
kCowles
1465
kDaeJaweon
1473.020
kDefinition
difficult, hard; distressing
kEACC
21544E
kFanqie
古閑
kFenn
107C
kFennIndex
58.12
kFourCornerCode
4753.2
kGB1
2872
kGradeLevel
4
kGSR
0480c
kHangul
간:0N
kHanYu
53171.050
kHanyuPinlu
jiān(211)
kHanyuPinyin
53171.050:jiān
kHKGlyph
3400
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53171.050
kIRG_GSource
G1-3C68
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C17D
kIRG_JSource
J0-6765
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-CDDE
kIRG_KSource
K0-4A5E
kIRG_TSource
T1-7529
kIRG_VSource
V1-6451
kJapanese
カン ケン かたい なやむ
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
NAYAMU KATAI
kJapaneseOn
KAN KEN
kJis0
7169
kKangXi
1013.290
kKarlgren
312
kKorean
KAN
kLau
807
kMandarin
jiān
kMatthews
834
kMeyerWempe
966
kMojiJoho
MJ021468 MJ021468:E0101 MJ021469:E0102
kMorohashi
30600 30600:E0101
kNelson
3888
kPhonetic
546 575
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6320+138.6.11
kRSUnicode
138.11
kSBGY
129.10
kSimplifiedVariant
"艰" U+8270 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index
570.05
kSMSZD2003Readings
jiān粵gaan1
kTaiwanTelegraph
5329
kTang
*gɛn
kTotalStrokes
17
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
gian
kXerox
253:060
kXHC1983
0549.011:jiān