U+592A "太" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
太
U+592A "太" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of "great," "supreme," "excessive," or "very," and is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is composed of the radical "大" meaning "big" with an additional dot, which together convey a sense of something that is extremely large or beyond ordinary scale. In Chinese philosophy, "太" appears in foundational terms like "太极" (Taiji), the supreme ultimate in Taoist cosmology, and "太阳" (tàiyáng), meaning "sun" or literally "great yang." Its usage spans from everyday expressions to classical texts, making it a versatile and essential character in written Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+592A |
| 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 | 太 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 太 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xA4 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x592A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000592A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u592a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4D3 |
| kCCCII | 213926 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4534 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4534 |
| kCangjie | KI |
| kCantonese | taai3 |
| kCihaiT | 354.501 |
| kCowles | 4283 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0505.010 |
| kDefinition | very, too, much; big; extreme |
| kEACC | 213926 |
| kFanqie | 他蓋 |
| kFenn | 451A |
| kFennIndex | 491.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4003.0 |
| kGB0 | 4411 |
| kGB1 | 4411 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0317d |
| kHangul | 태:0E |
| kHanYu | 10524.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | tài(1379) tai(337) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10524.010:tài,tā |
| kHKGlyph | 0837 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0505.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10524.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0248.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4C2B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4D3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4240 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F0D2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-773C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4534 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5148 |
| kJapanese | タイ タ タツ タチ ふとい ふとる はなはだ はなはだしい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:93 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUTOI HANAHADA FUTORU |
| kJapaneseOn | TA TAI |
| kJis0 | 3432 |
| kKangXi | 0248.100 |
| kKorean | THAY |
| kLau | 2988 2989 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1132 |
| kMandarin | tài |
| kMatthews | 6020 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2924 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ009455 |
| kMorohashi | 05834 |
| kNelson | 1172 |
| kPhonetic | 1289 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2848+3.1.3 C+2848+37.3.1 |
| kRSUnicode | 37.1 |
| kSBGY | 379.42 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 146.06 6.20 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | tài粵taai3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1132 |
| kTang | *tɑ̀i |
| kTGHZ2013 | 357.050:tài |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thái |
| kXerox | 241:344 |
| kXHC1983 | 1110.040:tài |