U+53EC "召" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
召
U+53EC "召" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "to call," "to summon," or "to convene," and it is composed of the radical 口 (mouth) and the phonetic component 刀 (knife), which together suggest the act of calling out or issuing a command. It is used in various East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it appears in words like 召集 (zhàojí / shōshū) meaning "to gather" or "assembly," and it often conveys the idea of an authoritative summons or invitation. Historically, this character has been employed in classical texts and official contexts to denote the calling of meetings or the summoning of individuals, reflecting its enduring relevance in formal and everyday communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+53EC |
| 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 | 召 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 召 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8F 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x53EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000053EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u53ec |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A56C |
| kCCCII | 213536 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-462E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-462E |
| kCangjie | SHR |
| kCantonese | ziu6 |
| kCihaiT | 243.501 |
| kCowles | 293 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0383.030 |
| kDefinition | imperial decree; summon |
| kEACC | 213536 |
| kFanqie | 直照 寔照 |
| kFenn | 715D |
| kFennIndex | 20.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1760.2 |
| kGB0 | 5357 |
| kGB1 | 5357 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 1131e |
| kHangul | 소:0E |
| kHanYu | 10574.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhào(235) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10574.030:zhào,shào |
| kHKGlyph | 0478 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0383.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10574.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0172.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5559 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A56C |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3E24 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E2FA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-612F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-462E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E3A |
| kJapanese | ショウ ジョウ チョウ めす まねく |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:334 |
| kJapaneseKun | MESU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 3004 |
| kKangXi | 0172.070 |
| kKorean | SO CO |
| kLau | 1524 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0664 |
| kMandarin | zhào |
| kMatthews | 234 |
| kMeyerWempe | 317 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008033 |
| kMorohashi | 03241 |
| kNelson | 0668 |
| kPhonetic | 219 1353 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2444+18.2.3 C+2444+30.3.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.2 |
| kSBGY | 414.01 414.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 88.02 56.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhào粵ziu6 shào粵siu6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0664 |
| kTang | djhiɛ̀u |
| kTGHZ2013 | 328.020:shào 468.040:zhào |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | chịu |
| kXerox | 250:366 |
| kXHC1983 | 1009.060:shào 1461.040:zhào |