U+52B4 "労" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

労

U+52B4 "労" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji character used primarily in Japanese, where it serves as a simplified form of the traditional Chinese character 勞, meaning "labor," "toil," or "work." It is composed of the radical 力 (strength) above the component 炏 (fire), symbolizing the burning effort involved in hard physical or mental exertion. In modern Japanese, it appears in common words such as 労働 (rodō, "labor") and 努力 (doryoku, "effort"), and it also functions as the 34th radical in the Kangxi system under the traditional form. Its encoding in Unicode allows for consistent digital representation across platforms, supporting written communication in East Asian texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+52B4
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	労
HTML Hex Encoding	労
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8A 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x52B4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000052B4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u52b4

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCNS1986	E-2462
kCNS1992	3-2462
kCangjie	FBKS
kCantonese	lou4
kDaeJaweon	0331.150
kDefinition	labor, toil, do manual work
kEACC	4B3435
kFourCornerCode	3242.7 9042.7
kHanYu	10369.011
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0331.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10369.011
kIRGKangXi	0147.071
kIRG_GSource	GE-324E
kIRG_JSource	J0-4F2B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3832
kIRG_KSource	K2-252D
kIRG_TSource	T3-2462
kJapanese	ロウリョウいたわるつかれるねぎらう
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	TSUKARERU NEGIRAU ITAWARU
kJapaneseOn	ROU
kJis0	4711
kKangXi	0147.071
kKorean	LO
kMandarin	láo
kMojiJoho	MJ007644
kMorohashi	02329
kNelson	0720
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4049+19.2.5 C+4049+42.3.4
kRSUnicode	19.5
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	J