U+5C0F "小" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5C0F "小" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character that represents the concept of "small," "little," or "tiny." It is one of the most common Kangxi radicals, numbered 42, and appears as a component in many other characters to convey ideas of diminutiveness or young age. In its written form, the character consists of three simple strokes, typically rendered as a central hook or vertical line flanked by two downward slanted dots or short strokes. Found in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, "小" is used in everyday vocabulary, such as in "小学" (elementary school) or "小さい" (small in Japanese), and carries cultural connotations of modesty and humility. Its simplicity and frequency make it an essential element in CJK typography and digital text encoding.

General Properties

Code Point U+5C0F
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 小
HTML Hex Encoding 小
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xB0 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5C0F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005C0F
C/C++/Java Escape \u5c0f

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

kBigFive A470
kCCCII 213B45
kCNS1986 1-4451
kCNS1992 1-4451
kCangjie NC
kCantonese siu2
kCihaiT 438.201
kCowles 3674
kDaeJaweon 0587.080
kDefinition small, tiny, insignificant
kEACC 213B45
kFanqie 私兆
kFenn 121A
kFennIndex 171.09 172.01
kFourCornerCode 9000.0
kGB0 4801
kGB1 4801
kGradeLevel 1
kGSR 1149a
kHangul 소:0E
kHanYu 10560.120
kHanyuPinlu xiǎo(5435)
kHanyuPinyin 10560.120:xiǎo
kHDZRadBreak ⼩[U+2F29]:10560.120
kHKGlyph 1055
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0587.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10560.120
kIRGKangXi 0296.180
kIRG_GSource G0-5021
kIRG_HSource HB1-A470
kIRG_JSource J0-3E2E
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E2FE
kIRG_KSource K0-6133
kIRG_TSource T1-4451
kIRG_VSource V1-5324
kJapanese ショウ ちいさい こ お すくない さ
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:37
kJapaneseKun CHIISAI KO O
kJapaneseOn SHOU
kJis0 3014
kKangXi 0296.180
kKorean SO
kLau 2856
kMainlandTelegraph 1420
kMandarin xiǎo
kMatthews 2605
kMeyerWempe 2829
kMojiJoho MJ010284
kMorohashi 07473
kNelson 1355
kPhonetic 1220
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2454+42.3.0
kRSUnicode 42.0
kSBGY 297.05
kSMSZD2003Index 175.05
kSMSZD2003Readings xiǎo粵siu2
kTaiwanTelegraph 1420
kTang *siɛ̌u
kTGHZ2013 403.170:xiǎo
kTotalStrokes 3
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese tiểu
kXerox 241:061
kXHC1983 1265.120:xiǎo