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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]
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 |
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