Social:Jiong
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]
Original meanings
- Window, according to Xu Shen's 2nd-century dictionary Shuowen Jiezi: “窻牖麗廔闓明” (an open and light window).
- Granary. 米囧 means “put the new rice into a granary”.
- Sacrificial place. Based on Chouli.
- Toponym.
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]
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| Unicode name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56E7 | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-518F | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 22247 0 0 0 | U+56E7 | 20879 0 0 0 | U+518F |
| UTF-8 | 229 155 167 0 0 0 | E5 9B A7 00 00 00 | 229 134 143 0 0 0 | E5 86 8F 00 00 00 |
| Numeric character reference | 囧 |
囧 |
冏 |
冏 |
| GBK / GB 18030[6] | 135 229 | 87 E5 | 131 215 | 83 D7 |
| KPS 9566-2011[7] | 200 130 | C8 82 | ||
| EUC-TW[8][9] | 142 162 163 200 | 8E A2 A3 C8 | 142 162 163 172 | 8E A2 A3 AC |
| CCCII / EACC[4][10][11] | 33 115 119 | 21 73 77 | 33 105 110 | 21 69 6E |
| Kangxi Dictionary reference[12][13] | Page 217, character 10 | Page 129, character 12 | ||
References
- ↑ Li & Li 2014, pp. 252-3.
- ↑ Hammond & Richey 2014, p. 141.
- ↑ "心情很orz嗎？ 網路象形文字幽默一下". http://www.nownews.com/2005/01/20/327-1744028.htm.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Unihan data for U+56E7". https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%E5%9B%A7.
- ↑ "Unihan data for U+56E7". https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%E5%9B%A7.
- ↑ Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set. https://archive.org/details/GB18030-2005.
- ↑ Chung, Jaemin (2018-01-05). "Information on the most recent version of KPS 9566 (KPS 9566-2011?)". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18011-info-kps9566-2011.pdf.
- ↑ "[囧 2-2348"]. CNS 11643 Word Information. https://www.cns11643.gov.tw/wordView.jsp?ID=140104&SN=&lang=en.
- ↑ "[冏 2-232C"]. CNS 11643 Word Information. https://www.cns11643.gov.tw/wordView.jsp?ID=140076&SN=&lang=en.
- ↑ "Unihan data for U+518F". https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=518F&useutf8=true.
- ↑ "EACC to Unicode". http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/codetables/eacc2uni.txt.
- ↑ "Page 217". Kangxi Dictionary. http://www.kangxizidian.com/kangxi/0217.gif.
- ↑ "Page 129". Kangxi Dictionary. http://www.kangxizidian.com/kangxi/0129.gif.
Bibliography
- Hammond, Kenneth J.; Richey, Jeffrey L. (3 December 2014). The Sage Returns: Confucian Revival in Contemporary China. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-5493-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=g6ytBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA141.
- Li, Yuming; Li, Wei (1 April 2014). The Language Situation in China. De Gruyter. ISBN 978-1-61451-365-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=4PHnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA252.
- Ru, Xin; Lu, Xueyi; Li, Peilin (25 March 2010). The China Society Yearbook. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-18221-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=7ecJc4PhmqUC&pg=PA311.
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