U+4F50 "佐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+4F50 "佐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically means "to assist" or "to aid," and it is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Japanese and Korean in addition to Chinese. In Japanese, it frequently appears in names and words like "佐藤" (Satō) as the first component, and it often conveys the sense of helping or supporting someone, such as a military aide or deputy. The character is composed of the radical for "person" on the left, indicating a human connection, and the phonetic component "左" (meaning "left") on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. Overall, this character embodies a concept of cooperative support that has been integral to social and hierarchical relationships in East Asian cultures.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
佐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
佐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE4 0xBD 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x4F50 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00004F50 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u4f50 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive |
A6F5 |
| kCCCII |
213135 |
| kCNS1986 |
1-4876 |
| kCNS1992 |
1-4876 |
| kCangjie |
OKM |
| kCantonese |
zo3 |
| kCihaiT |
96.501 |
| kCowles |
4598 |
| kDaeJaweon |
0207.030 |
| kDefinition |
assist, aid, second; subordinate |
| kEACC |
213135 |
| kFanqie |
則箇 |
| kFenn |
177G |
| kFennIndex |
552.04 |
| kFourCornerCode |
2421.1 |
| kGB0 |
5584 |
| kGB1 |
5584 |
| kGSR |
0005e |
| kHangul |
좌:0E |
| kHanYu |
10130.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin |
10130.060:zuǒ |
| kHKGlyph |
0112 |
| kIICore |
AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon |
0207.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
10130.060 |
| kIRGKangXi |
0098.100 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G0-5774 |
| kIRG_HSource |
HB1-A6F5 |
| kIRG_JSource |
J0-3A34 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP0-ECA3 |
| kIRG_KSource |
K0-7125 |
| kIRG_TSource |
T1-4876 |
| kIRG_VSource |
V1-4B2E |
| kJapanese |
サ たすける すけ |
| kJoyoKanji |
2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja |
2007 |
| kTGH |
2013:772 |
| kJapaneseKun |
TASUKE TASUKERU SUKE |
| kJapaneseOn |
SA |
| kJis0 |
2620 |
| kKangXi |
0098.100 |
| kKorean |
CWA |
| kLau |
1540 |
| kMainlandTelegraph |
0146 |
| kMandarin |
zuǒ |
| kMatthews |
6775 |
| kMeyerWempe |
3425a |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ006634 |
| kMorohashi |
00506 |
| kNelson |
0392 |
| kPhonetic |
232 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 |
C+2084+9.2.5 |
| kRSUnicode |
9.5 |
| kSBGY |
419.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Index |
25.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings |
zuǒ,zuò粵zo3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph |
0146 |
| kTGHZ2013 |
496.200:zuǒ |
| kTotalStrokes |
7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese |
tá |
| kXerox |
252:337 |
| kXHC1983 |
1551.010:zuǒ |