U+520D "刍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
刍
U+520D "刍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a simplified form of the traditional character "芻," which means "to mow" or "hay" and is often associated with grass, fodder, or a humble or hasty action such as cutting grass. In modern usage, it appears in compound words like "刍议" (chúyì), meaning "my humble opinion," reflecting its classical roots in expressing modesty or preliminary thoughts. The character is composed of the radical for knife or grass and carries connotations of simplicity or roughness, aligning with its historical use in agricultural or modest contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+520D |
| 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 | 刍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 刍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x88 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x520D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000520D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u520d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27545C |
| kCangjie | NSM |
| kCantonese | co1 |
| kDefinition | mow, cut grass; hay, fodder |
| kEACC | 27545C |
| kFourCornerCode | 2717 |
| kGB0 | 5927 |
| kHanYu | 10323.120 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10323.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0137.021 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5B3B |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-007467 |
| kJapanese | スウ ス シュ シュウ まぐさ |
| kTGH | 2013:3550 |
| kKangXi | 0137.021 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5368 |
| kMandarin | chú |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007467 |
| kPhonetic | 234 |
| kRSUnicode | 18.3 58.2 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 049.140:chú |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "芻" U+82BB CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0159.110:chú |