Jiong
Chinese character
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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]
It has historically been used as a Chinese dictionary radical and has Shuowen Jiezi number 240, but it is not included among the Kangxi radicals, nor by the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components.
Original meanings
Internet emoticon
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.
Encoding
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 | ||