U+5968 "奨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

奨

U+5968 "奨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese and Japanese character that represents the concept of encouragement, reward, or commendation, commonly used in East Asian writing systems. It is a variant form of the character 奬 (or simplified 奖 in Chinese), with the left radical indicating a "great" or "big" element and the right component relating to a dog or animal, though its modern meaning has shifted toward promoting or honoring achievement. In Japanese, it appears in words like 奨学金 (shōgakukin, meaning "scholarship") and 奨励 (shōrei, meaning "encouragement"), while in Chinese it is less standard but still recognized as a historical or calligraphic variant. This character exemplifies how CJK characters can carry nuanced semantic and cultural significance across different languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5968
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	奨
HTML Hex Encoding	奨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xA5 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5968
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005968
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5968

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	2D4B25
kCNS1986	E-4061
kCNS1992	3-4061
kCangjie	LIK
kCantonese	zoeng2
kDaeJaweon	0515.180
kDefinition	prize, reward; give award to
kEACC	4B7954
kFourCornerCode	3243.0
kHanYu	10547.040
kIICore	AJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0515.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10547.040
kIRGKangXi	0253.211
kIRG_GSource	GE-3554
kIRG_JSource	J0-3E29
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3CC2
kIRG_TSource	T3-4061
kJapanese	ショウソウすすめるすすむ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	SUSUMERU
kJapaneseOn	SHOU SOU
kJis0	3009
kKangXi	0253.211
kKorean	CANG
kMandarin	jiǎng
kMojiJoho	MJ009528
kMorohashi	05990'
kNelson	1181
kPhonetic	112*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2449+37.3.10
kRSUnicode	37.10
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"奬" U+596C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	J
kZVariant	U+596C U+734E