U+5F28 "弨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
弨
U+5F28 "弨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that appears in classical texts and is primarily associated with the meaning of a bow that is slack or unstrung, as well as the action of relaxing or unbending a bow. Its composition combines the radical for bow (弓) on the left with the phonetic component 召 (zhao) on the right, which hints at its pronunciation, typically read as chāo in modern Mandarin. While not commonly used in everyday modern Chinese, "弨" occasionally appears in historical or literary contexts describing archery equipment or metaphorical references to releasing tension.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5F28 |
| 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 | 弨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 弨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBC 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5F28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005F28 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5f28 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CC70 |
| kCCCII | 22294A |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2651 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2651 |
| kCangjie | NSHR |
| kCantonese | ciu1 |
| kCihaiT | 501.601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0674.180 |
| kDefinition | bow |
| kEACC | 22294A |
| kFanqie | 尺招 尺沼 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1726.2 |
| kGB3 | 2776 |
| kGSR | 1131s |
| kHanYu | 20994.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20994.060:chāo |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0674.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20994.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0358.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3B6C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CC70 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-3C68 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-41B8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-312A |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2651 |
| kJapanese | ショウ |
| kTGH | 2013:6735 |
| kJapaneseKun | SORIKAERU |
| kJapaneseOn | SEU |
| kJis1 | 2872 |
| kKangXi | 0358.010 |
| kMandarin | chāo |
| kMeyerWempe | 319c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011179 |
| kMorohashi | 09758 |
| kPhonetic | 219 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14517+57.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 57.5 |
| kSBGY | 151.13 298.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 207.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chāo粵ciu1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1724 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 040.010:chāo |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 302:376 |
| kXHC1983 | 0127.010:chāo |