U+54B2 "咲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
咲
U+54B2 "咲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in Japanese and traditional Chinese contexts, where it means "to blossom" or "to bloom," often specifically referring to flowers opening. In Japanese, it is commonly employed in names and poetic language as an alternative to the more standard character for "bloom," "咲く" (saku), and it carries a nuanced sense of natural beauty and transience. In Chinese, it is a less common variant of the character "笑" (xiào), meaning "to smile" or "to laugh," though this usage is archaic or regional. The character's structure combines the mouth radical (口) with elements suggesting emergence or opening, visually linking the act of smiling or flowering to an expressive outward motion.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+54B2 |
| 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 | 咲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 咲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x92 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x54B2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000054B2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u54b2 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 216F75 |
| kCNS1986 | E-2B5B |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2B5B |
| kCangjie | RTK |
| kCantonese | siu3 |
| kCihaiT | 273.104 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0406.110 |
| kDefinition | smile, laugh, giggle; snicker |
| kEACC | 334F71 |
| kFennIndex | 172.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6803.4 |
| kHangul | 소:N |
| kHanYu | 10619.030 80013.080 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0406.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10619.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0187.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-334D |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8E5A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3A69 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-39A0 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-267B |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2B5B |
| kJapanese | ショウ さく さき わらう |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SAKU WARAU SAKI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 2673 |
| kKangXi | 0187.090 |
| kKorean | SO |
| kMandarin | xiào |
| kMatthews | 2615 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008236 MJ008236:E0102 MJ008235:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 03554:E0103 |
| kNelson | 0922 |
| kPhonetic | 1209 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2137+30.3.6 V+13788+30.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.6 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7B11<kFenn |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 102.14 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJ |
| kXHC1983 | 1272.030:xiào |