U+905C "遜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+905C "遜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "humble," "modest," or "to yield," and it is also used in Japanese as the kanji "son" in words like "sonkei" (respect) and "kenson" (humility). In modern Simplified Chinese, the character is often replaced by the variant "逊," but in Traditional Chinese and Japanese, "遜" retains its full strokes and classical usage. It comprises the components for "辵" (walking or movement) and "孫" (grandchild or descendant), hinting at a conceptual connection to stepping back in a lineage or deferring to others. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+905C
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
遜
HTML Hex Encoding
遜
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE9 0x81 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x905C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000905C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u905c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
BBB9
kCCCII
215C45
kCNS1986
1-6B41
kCNS1992
1-6B41
kCangjie
YNDF
kCantonese
seon3
kCihaiT
1329.401
kCowles
3744
kDaeJaweon
1757.070
kDefinition
humble, modest; yield
kEACC
215C45
kFanqie
蘇困
kFenn
887E
kFennIndex
196.07
kFourCornerCode
3230.9
kGB1
4923
kGSR
0434e
kHangul
손:0N
kHanYu
63874.030
kHanyuPinlu
xùn(9)
kHanyuPinyin
63874.030:xùn
kHKGlyph
4142
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
63874.030
kIRG_GSource
G1-5137
kIRG_HSource
HB1-BBB9
kIRG_JSource
J0-423D
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E3CE
kIRG_KSource
K0-6161
kIRG_TSource
T1-6B41
kJapanese
ソン へりくだる ゆずる
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
YUZURU HERIKUDARU SHITAGAU
kJapaneseOn
SON
kJis0
3429
kKangXi
1263.030
kKorean
SON
kMandarin
xùn
kMatthews
5545
kMeyerWempe
2886
kMojiJoho
MJ026079 MJ026078:E0102 MJ026079:E0103
kMorohashi
39038 39038:E0103
kNelson
4730
kPhonetic
1242
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2845+162.3.10 V+7726+162.4.10
kRSUnicode
162.10
kSBGY
399.16
kSemanticVariant
U+613B<kFenn
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
700.07
kSMSZD2003Readings
xùn粵seon3
kTaiwanTelegraph
6676
kTang
suə̀n
kTotalStrokes
14
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kXerox
256:326
kXHC1983
1316.021:xùn