U+52AD "劭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
劭
U+52AD "劭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in traditional and simplified scripts, primarily meaning "to encourage," "to urge," or "excellent," often carrying a connotation of moral excellence or praiseworthy conduct. It is composed of the radical 力 (power or strength) on the right and the phonetic component 召 (to summon or call) on the left, reflecting its historical usage in classical texts to describe someone or something of outstanding virtue or nobility, and it appears in words such as 年高德劭, which describes an elderly person of great virtue and high esteem.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+52AD |
| 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 | 劭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 劭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8A 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x52AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000052AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u52ad |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CA6F |
| kCCCII | 216C31 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2331 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2331 |
| kCangjie | SRKS |
| kCantonese | siu6 |
| kCihaiT | 195.101 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0331.050 |
| kDefinition | encourage; to excel; excellent |
| kEACC | 216C31 |
| kFanqie | 寔照 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1462.7 |
| kGB0 | 5931 |
| kGB1 | 5931 |
| kHangul | 소:N 초:1 |
| kHanYu | 10369.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10369.050:shào |
| kIICore | BGTJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0331.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10369.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0147.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5B3F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CA6F |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5223 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-382E |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6F6A |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2331 |
| kJapanese | ショウ キョウ つとめる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3817 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUTOMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 5003 |
| kKangXi | 0147.020 |
| kKorean | CHO |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0508 |
| kMandarin | shào |
| kMatthews | 5687 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2748b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007638 |
| kMorohashi | 02318 |
| kPhonetic | 219 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4280+19.2.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 19.5 |
| kSBGY | 414.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 66.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shào粵siu6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0508 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 328.040:shào |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 277:166 |
| kXHC1983 | 1009.090:shào |