U+52C9 "勉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+52C9 "勉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese and Japanese kanji character primarily meaning "to strive," "to encourage," or "to exert effort," and its etymology combines the radical for "power" or "strength" with a phonetic component suggesting "avoidance" or "exemption," symbolizing the idea of pushing oneself beyond normal limits. It appears in common words like the Chinese "努力" (nǔlì, "to work hard") though "勉" itself forms "勉強" (miǎnqiǎng) meaning "to force oneself" or "to do with difficulty," and in Japanese it is central to "勉強" (benkyō), the standard term for "study" or "learning." This character thus conveys a core cultural concept of diligent perseverance across both languages, representing the human quality of striving through challenge and effort.

General Properties

Code Point U+52C9
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 勉
HTML Hex Encoding 勉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x8B 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0x52C9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000052C9
C/C++/Java Escape \u52c9

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

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kCCCII 213430
kCNS1986 1-502E
kCNS1992 1-502E
kCangjie NUKS
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kCihaiT 195.501
kCowles 2682
kDaeJaweon 0333.020
kDefinition endeavor, make effort; urge
kEACC 213430
kFanqie 亡辨
kFenn 384B
kFennIndex 342.02
kFourCornerCode 2421.2
kGB0 3567
kGB1 3567
kGradeLevel 4
kGSR 0222c
kHangul 면:0E
kHanYu 10372.030
kHanyuPinlu miǎn(37)
kHanyuPinyin 10372.030:miǎn
kHKGlyph 0386
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0333.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10372.030
kIRGKangXi 0147.370
kIRG_GSource G0-4363
kIRG_HSource HB1-AB6A
kIRG_JSource J0-4A59
kIRG_KPSource KP0-DAE4
kIRG_KSource K0-5875
kIRG_TSource T1-502E
kIRG_VSource V1-4D43
kJapanese ベン メン つとめる はげます
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:1599
kJapaneseKun TSUTOMERU
kJapaneseOn BEN
kJis0 4257
kKangXi 0147.370
kKorean MYEN
kLau 2139
kMainlandTelegraph 0517
kMandarin miǎn
kMatthews 4495
kMeyerWempe 1824
kMojiJoho MJ007670 MJ030247:FE00 MJ007670:E0102 MJ030247:E0103
kMorohashi 02384' 02362:FE00 02384':E0102 02362:E0103
kNelson 0214 0228 0684
kPhonetic 899
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3625+19.2.8
kRSUnicode 19.7
kSBGY 295.02
kSMSZD2003Index 67.02
kSMSZD2003Readings miǎn粵min5
kTaiwanTelegraph 0517
kTang myɛ̌n
kTGHZ2013 251.110:miǎn
kTotalStrokes 9
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese miễn
kXerox 251:076
kXHC1983 0786.040:miǎn