U+50AC "催" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
催
U+50AC "催" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to urge," "to hasten," or "to press." It is composed of the radical "亻" (person) on the left, suggesting human action, and the phonetic component "崔" on the right. This character is commonly used in modern Chinese in words such as "催促" (to urge or prompt) and "催眠" (hypnosis, literally "urge sleep"). Its usage emphasizes the act of pushing someone or something to move faster or take action, and it appears frequently in both written and spoken contexts, from everyday conversation to formal administrative or psychological terminology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+50AC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 催 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 催 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x82 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x50AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000050AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u50ac |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B6CA |
| kCCCII | 21324B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6331 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6331 |
| kCangjie | OUOG |
| kCantonese | ceoi1 |
| kCihaiT | 121.508 |
| kCowles | 4822 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0242.170 |
| kDefinition | press, urge |
| kEACC | 21324B |
| kFanqie | 倉回 |
| kFenn | 53B |
| kFennIndex | 561.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2221.4 |
| kGB0 | 2063 |
| kGB1 | 2063 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0575j' |
| kHangul | 최:0E |
| kHanYu | 10211.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | cuī(41) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10211.070:cuī |
| kHKGlyph | 0229 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0242.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10211.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0114.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-345F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B6CA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3A45 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EFCF |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-754A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6331 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4B7B |
| kJapanese | サイ スイ もよおす うながす |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2959 |
| kJapaneseKun | MOYOOSU UNAGASU MOYOOSHI |
| kJapaneseOn | SAI |
| kJis0 | 2637 |
| kKangXi | 0114.090 |
| kKorean | CHOY |
| kLau | 396 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0275 |
| kMandarin | cuī |
| kMatthews | 6865 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3481 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007013 |
| kMorohashi | 01005 |
| kNelson | 0533 |
| kPhonetic | 293 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2101+9.2.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.11 |
| kSBGY | 097.39 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 38.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cuī粵ceoi1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0275 |
| kTang | *tsuəi tsuəi |
| kTGHZ2013 | 058.070:cuī |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thòi |
| kXerox | 260:166 |
| kXHC1983 | 0182.090:cuī |