U+52A1 "务" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
务
U+52A1 "务" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "affair," "business," "task," or "must" and is used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems. It is composed of the radical 夂 (meaning "go" or "slowly") and the phonetic component 矛, and its structure reflects an ancient depiction of a task or urgent matter. In modern usage, "务" appears in common terms such as "任务" (rènwu, "task") and "服务" (fúwù, "service"), and it also functions as an adverb meaning "must" or "be sure to" in formal or written contexts. This character is encoded in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, allowing it to be consistently represented across digital platforms for East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+52A1 |
| 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 | 务 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 务 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8A 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x52A1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000052A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u52a1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273433 |
| kCangjie | HEKS |
| kCantonese | mou6 |
| kDefinition | affairs, business; must, should |
| kEACC | 273433 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2742 |
| kGB0 | 4681 |
| kHanYu | 10366.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | wu(473) wù(445) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10366.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0146.161 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4E71 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8955 |
| kTGH | 2013:297 |
| kKangXi | 0146.161 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0523 |
| kMandarin | wù |
| kPhonetic | 917 |
| kRSUnicode | 19.3 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 65.10 144.09 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 389.250:wù |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "務" U+52D9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 1224.070:wù |