U+4F5C "作" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+4F5C "作" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character that primarily means "to do," "to make," "to write," "to compose," or "to act as," and it is widely used in both classical and modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts. Structurally, it combines the radical "亻" (person) on the left with the phonetic component "乍" on the right, indicating both a semantic connection to human action and a guide to pronunciation. In Chinese, it appears in common words like "工作" (work), "作家" (writer), and "作品" (artwork or composition), emphasizing themes of creation, labor, and authorship. Its Unicode designation as a CJK Unified Ideograph ensures consistent representation across digital systems for East Asian languages, making it a fundamental character for expressing productive or generative actions in written communication.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
作 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
作 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE4 0xBD 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x4F5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00004F5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u4f5c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive |
A740 |
| kCCCII |
21313F |
| kCNS1986 |
1-4922 |
| kCNS1992 |
1-4922 |
| kCangjie |
OHS |
| kCantonese |
zok3 |
| kCihaiT |
99.301 |
| kCowles |
4610 |
| kDaeJaweon |
0210.010 |
| kDefinition |
make; work; compose, write; act, perform |
| kEACC |
21313F |
| kFanqie |
臧祚 則箇 則落 |
| kFenn |
150C |
| kFennIndex |
551.07 552.02 553.02 |
| kFourCornerCode |
2821.1 |
| kGB0 |
5587 |
| kGB1 |
5587 |
| kGradeLevel |
1 |
| kGSR |
0806l |
| kHangul |
작:0E |
| kHanYu |
10134.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu |
zuò(4832) |
| kHanyuPinyin |
10134.060:zuò,zuō,zuó |
| kHKGlyph |
0123 |
| kIICore |
AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon |
0210.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
10134.060 |
| kIRGKangXi |
0099.070 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G0-5777 |
| kIRG_HSource |
HB1-A740 |
| kIRG_JSource |
J0-3A6E |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP0-E6C4 |
| kIRG_KSource |
K0-6D42 |
| kIRG_TSource |
T1-4922 |
| kIRG_VSource |
V1-4B33 |
| kJapanese |
サク サ ショ ソ つくる なす |
| kJoyoKanji |
2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja |
2007 |
| kTGH |
2013:777 |
| kJapaneseKun |
TSUKURU TSUKURI NASU |
| kJapaneseOn |
SAKU SA |
| kJis0 |
2678 |
| kKangXi |
0099.070 |
| kKarlgren |
1151 |
| kKorean |
CAK CWU |
| kLau |
1549 |
| kMainlandTelegraph |
0155 |
| kMandarin |
zuò |
| kMatthews |
6780 |
| kMeyerWempe |
3450 |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ006647 |
| kMorohashi |
00518 |
| kNelson |
0407 |
| kPhonetic |
10 248 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 |
C+2142+9.2.5 |
| kRSUnicode |
9.5 |
| kSBGY |
370.22 419.19 506.11 |
| kSemanticVariant |
U+20228 |
| kSMSZD2003Index |
25.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings |
zuò粵zok3 zuō粵zok3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph |
0155 |
| kTang |
*tzɑk tzɑk |
| kTGHZ2013 |
496.130:zuō 497.010:zuò |
| kTotalStrokes |
7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese |
tác |
| kXerox |
241:167 |
| kXHC1983 |
1550.030:zuō 1550.080:zuó 1553.030,1554.031:zuò |