U+52B1 "励" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
励
U+52B1 "励" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to encourage" or "to exhort," often associated with the concept of urging someone to action or motivating effort. In traditional Chinese, it is written as 勵, which combines the radical 力 (strength, power) with an earlier phonetic component, while its simplified form 励 retains the core semantic sense of applying force or influence to inspire. The character appears frequently in contexts like 鼓励 ("to encourage"), 奖励 ("to reward" or "prize"), and 激励 ("to stimulate" or "motivate"), and it is used across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where it carries subtle variations in usage but consistently conveys the idea of positive reinforcement or exhortation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+52B1 |
| 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 | 励 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 励 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8A 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x52B1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000052B1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u52b1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27343C |
| kCangjie | MSKS |
| kCantonese | lai6 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0331.120 |
| kDefinition | strive; encourage |
| kEACC | 27343C |
| kFourCornerCode | 7422.7 |
| kGB0 | 3288 |
| kHanYu | 10368.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | lì(93) |
| kIICore | AGJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0331.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10368.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0147.071 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4078 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4E65 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3831 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-252C |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-2348 |
| kJapanese | レイ はげむ はげます |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kTGH | 2013:702 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAGEMU HAGEMASU |
| kJapaneseOn | REI |
| kJis0 | 4669 |
| kKangXi | 0147.071 |
| kKorean | LYE |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0536 |
| kMandarin | lì |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007642 |
| kMorohashi | 02326 |
| kNelson | 0193 |
| kPhonetic | 773* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4013+19.2.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 19.5 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "励" U+52B1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 65.11 66.09 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 217.060:lì |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "励" U+52B1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "勵" U+52F5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GJ |
| kXHC1983 | 0697.180:lì |