U+5C11 "少" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
少
U+5C11 "少" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character meaning "few," "little," or "young," and it is widely used across East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its structure consists of the radical for "small" (小) as a simplified form combined with a single stroke, symbolizing a diminished or youthful state. In everyday usage, it appears in common words such as "多少" (how many or how much) and "少年" (youth or juvenile), highlighting its role in expressing quantities and age-related concepts. This character holds deep cultural significance in contexts like education and philosophy, where it often implies the virtue of modesty or the passing of time in classical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5C11 |
| 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 | 少 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 少 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB0 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5C11 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005C11 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5c11 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4D6 |
| kCCCII | 213B46 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4537 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4537 |
| kCangjie | FH |
| kCantonese | siu2 |
| kCihaiT | 442.401 |
| kCowles | 3966 3967 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0590.020 |
| kDefinition | few, less, inadequate |
| kEACC | 213B46 |
| kFanqie | 書沼 失照 |
| kFenn | 122A |
| kFennIndex | 440.06 440.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9020.0 |
| kGB0 | 4157 |
| kGB1 | 4157 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1149e |
| kHangul | 소:0E |
| kHanYu | 10561.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shǎo(1187) shao(362) shào(323) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10561.020:shào,shǎo |
| kHKGlyph | 1056 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0590.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10561.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0296.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4959 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4D6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3E2F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E3A1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6134 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4537 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5325 |
| kJapanese | ショウ すくない すこし かく わかい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:110 |
| kJapaneseKun | SUKUNAI SUKOSHI SHIBARAKU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 3015 |
| kKangXi | 0296.200 |
| kKorean | SO |
| kLau | 2857 2858 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1421 |
| kMandarin | shǎo |
| kMatthews | 5675 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2745 2746 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010286 |
| kMorohashi | 07475 |
| kNelson | 0166 |
| kPhonetic | 1220 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2455+42.3.1 |
| kRSUnicode | 42.1 |
| kSBGY | 297.27 415.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 175.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shǎo粵siu2 shào粵siu3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1421 |
| kTang | *shiɛ̀u *shiɛ̌u |
| kTGHZ2013 | 327.180:shǎo 328.010:shào |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thiểu |
| kXerox | 242:073 |
| kXHC1983 | 1008.120:shǎo 1009.050:shào |