Jiong ( Chinese: 囧; pinyin: jiǒng; Jyutping: gwing2) is a once obscure Chinese character meaning a "patterned window". [1] Since 2008, it has become an internet phenomenon and widely used to express embarrassment and gloom, because of the character's resemblance to a sad facial expression. [2]
The character for jiong is nowadays more widely used on the Internet as an ideographic emoticon representing a range of moods, as it resembles a person's face. It is commonly used to express ideas or feelings such as annoyance, shock, embarrassment, awkwardness, etc.
The use of jiong as an emoticon can be traced to 2005 or earlier; it was referenced on 20 January 2005 in a Chinese-language article on orz. [3] The character is sometimes used in conjunction with orz, OTZ or its other variants to form "囧rz", representing a person on their hands and knees (jiong forming the face, while r and z represent arms and legs respectively) and symbolising despair or failure.
The character is included in Unicode at U+56E7 ( 囧). [4] Unicode also includes U+518F ( 冏), which is considered a variant. [5]
Preview | 囧 | 冏 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56E7 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-518F | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 22247 | U+56E7 | 20879 | U+518F |
UTF-8 | 229 155 167 | E5 9B A7 | 229 134 143 | E5 86 8F |
Numeric character reference | 囧 |
囧 |
冏 |
冏 |
Shift JIS [6] | 153 103 | 99 67 | ||
EUC-JP [7] | 143 182 250 | 8F B6 FA | 209 200 | D1 C8 |
GBK / GB 18030 [8] | 135 229 | 87 E5 | 131 215 | 83 D7 |
KPS 9566-2011 [9] | 200 130 | C8 82 | ||
Big5 [10] | 202 168 | CA A8 | 202 106 | CA 6A |
EUC-TW [11] [12] | 142 162 163 200 | 8E A2 A3 C8 | 142 162 163 172 | 8E A2 A3 AC |
CCCII / EACC [4] [13] [14] | 33 115 119 | 21 73 77 | 33 105 110 | 21 69 6E |
Kangxi Dictionary reference [15] [16] | Page 217, character 10 | Page 129, character 12 |
kKoreanName 2015:U+518F 冏
Jiong ( Chinese: 囧; pinyin: jiǒng; Jyutping: gwing2) is a once obscure Chinese character meaning a "patterned window". [1] Since 2008, it has become an internet phenomenon and widely used to express embarrassment and gloom, because of the character's resemblance to a sad facial expression. [2]
The character for jiong is nowadays more widely used on the Internet as an ideographic emoticon representing a range of moods, as it resembles a person's face. It is commonly used to express ideas or feelings such as annoyance, shock, embarrassment, awkwardness, etc.
The use of jiong as an emoticon can be traced to 2005 or earlier; it was referenced on 20 January 2005 in a Chinese-language article on orz. [3] The character is sometimes used in conjunction with orz, OTZ or its other variants to form "囧rz", representing a person on their hands and knees (jiong forming the face, while r and z represent arms and legs respectively) and symbolising despair or failure.
The character is included in Unicode at U+56E7 ( 囧). [4] Unicode also includes U+518F ( 冏), which is considered a variant. [5]
Preview | 囧 | 冏 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Unicode name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56E7 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-518F | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 22247 | U+56E7 | 20879 | U+518F |
UTF-8 | 229 155 167 | E5 9B A7 | 229 134 143 | E5 86 8F |
Numeric character reference | 囧 |
囧 |
冏 |
冏 |
Shift JIS [6] | 153 103 | 99 67 | ||
EUC-JP [7] | 143 182 250 | 8F B6 FA | 209 200 | D1 C8 |
GBK / GB 18030 [8] | 135 229 | 87 E5 | 131 215 | 83 D7 |
KPS 9566-2011 [9] | 200 130 | C8 82 | ||
Big5 [10] | 202 168 | CA A8 | 202 106 | CA 6A |
EUC-TW [11] [12] | 142 162 163 200 | 8E A2 A3 C8 | 142 162 163 172 | 8E A2 A3 AC |
CCCII / EACC [4] [13] [14] | 33 115 119 | 21 73 77 | 33 105 110 | 21 69 6E |
Kangxi Dictionary reference [15] [16] | Page 217, character 10 | Page 129, character 12 |
kKoreanName 2015:U+518F 冏