U+52A8 "动" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
动
U+52A8 "动" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to move," "to act," or "to change position," and it is widely used in both modern and classical Chinese texts. Composed of the radical 力 (strength or effort) on the right and a phonetic component related to movement on the left, this character forms the basis for many common words such as 动作 (movement), 动物 (animal), and 活动 (activity). It appears in East Asian writing systems including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it conveys notions of motion, action, or dynamic change.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+52A8 |
| 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 | 动 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 动 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8A 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x52A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000052A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u52a8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273434 |
| kCNS1986 | E-2328 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2328 |
| kCangjie | MIKS |
| kCantonese | dung6 |
| kDefinition | move, happen; movement, action |
| kEACC | 273434 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1472 |
| kGB0 | 2215 |
| kHanYu | 10367.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | dòng(5030) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10367.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0146.241 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-362F |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8956 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2328 |
| kTGH | 2013:353 |
| kKangXi | 0146.241 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0520 |
| kMandarin | dòng |
| kPhonetic | 1405 |
| kRSUnicode | 19.4 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "动" U+52A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 66.01 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 078.130:dòng |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "动" U+52A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "動" U+52D5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 0259.050:dòng |