U+52E5 "勥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+52E5 "勥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character that is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin, but it carries the meaning of "to force" or "to compel" and is a variant of the more common character 強 (qiáng, meaning "strong" or "to strengthen"). Its structure combines the radical 力 (strength or effort) with phonetic and semantic components, reflecting its association with exertion or insistence. In historical or classical contexts, this character might appear in literary works or specialized terminology, but it does not belong to the frequent character sets for everyday communication. Additionally, its digital representation in the Unicode standard allows it to be consistently encoded and displayed across systems, preserving it as part of the extensive CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph repertoire for cultural and linguistic archiving.

General Properties

Code Point U+52E5
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 勥
HTML Hex Encoding 勥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x8B 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x52E5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000052E5
C/C++/Java Escape \u52e5

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

kCCCII 216C4F
kCangjie NIKS
kCantonese koeng5
kDaeJaweon 0337.010
kDefinition to force; tough
kFanqie 巨良 其兩
kGB5 2104
kHanYu 10379.100
kHanyuPinyin 10379.100:qiǎng,jiǎng
kIRGDaeJaweon 0337.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10379.100
kIRGKangXi 0149.080
kIRG_GSource G5-3524
kIRG_JSource J1-3371
kIRG_TSource T4-3C3C
kJapanese キョウ ゴウ
kJapaneseKun SEMARU TSUTOMERU
kJapaneseOn KYOU GOU
kJis1 1981
kKangXi 0149.080
kMandarin jiàng
kMojiJoho MJ007712
kMorohashi 02425
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+21214+19.2.11
kRSUnicode 19.11
kSBGY 177.38 311.11
kSMSZD2003Index 69.01 69.09
kSMSZD2003Readings qiǎng粵koeng5 jiàng粵koeng6
kTotalStrokes 14
kXHC1983 0562.101:jiàng