U+9EE5 "黥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

黥
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+9EE5 "黥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that historically refers to a form of punishment involving tattooing the face or forehead, often used in ancient China and other East Asian cultures as a means of branding criminals or slaves with indelible markings. This ideograph combines the radical for "black" or "dark" (黑) with a phonetic component (京), reflecting its association with ink or blackening the skin through tattooing. Beyond its literal meaning, the character appears in classical texts and literature, such as in the historical records of the Qin and Han dynasties, where it denoted a specific legal penalty, and it later extended metaphorically to describe stigmatization or indelible disgrace.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+9EE5
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
黥
HTML Hex Encoding
黥
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE9 0xBB 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding
0x9EE5
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00009EE5
C/C++/Java Escape
\u9ee5

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
F5B4
kCCCII
235E59
kCNS1986
2-6B42
kCNS1992
2-6B42
kCangjie
WFYRF
kCantonese
king4
kCihaiT
1563.506
kDaeJaweon
2055.090
kDefinition
to tattoo; to brand the face of criminals
kEACC
235E59
kFanqie
渠京
kFourCornerCode
6039.6
kGB0
8784
kGB1
8784
kGSR
0755g
kHangul
경:1N
kHanYu
74751.070
kHanyuPinyin
74751.070:qíng
kIICore
BGT
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74751.070
kIRG_GSource
G0-7774
kIRG_HSource
HB2-F5B4
kIRG_JSource
J0-735D
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-9107
kIRG_KSource
K1-585D
kIRG_TSource
T2-6B42
kIRG_VSource
V2-916A
kJapanese
ゲイ ケイ ギョウ いれずみ
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:6433
kJapaneseKun
IREZUMI
kJapaneseOn
GEI KEI
kJis0
8361
kKangXi
1520.260
kKarlgren
392
kKorean
KYENG
kMainlandTelegraph
7823
kMandarin
qíng
kMatthews
1159
kMeyerWempe
1172i
kMojiJoho
MJ029919 MJ029919:E0101 MJ029920:E0102
kMorohashi
48123 48123:E0101
kNelson
5410
kPhonetic
622
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+7440+203.12.8
kRSUnicode
203.8
kSBGY
187.13
kSMSZD2003Index
826.08
kSMSZD2003Readings
qíng粵king4
kTaiwanTelegraph
7823
kTGHZ2013
304.080:qíng
kTotalStrokes
20
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
275:320
kXHC1983
0934.020:qíng