U+616B "慫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
慫
U+616B "慫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of "to urge" or "to incite" often with a connotation of instigating or frightening someone into action, though it can also carry a sense of "terror" or "alarm" depending on context. In traditional Chinese usage, it is commonly found in the compound verb "慫恿" (sǒngyǒng), meaning to instigate or egg someone on. This character is built from the radical "心" (heart or mind) on the bottom, suggesting an emotional or psychological dimension, combined with a phonetic component on top. Its pronunciation in Mandarin is "sǒng" with a third tone.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+616B |
| 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 | 慫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 慫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x85 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x616B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000616B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u616b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BCA3 |
| kCCCII | 213F3B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6C6B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6C6B |
| kCangjie | HOP |
| kCantonese | sung2 |
| kCihaiT | 542.502 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0739.160 |
| kDefinition | to alarm; to instigate, arouse, incite |
| kEACC | 213F3B |
| kFanqie | 息拱 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2833.8 |
| kGB1 | 4343 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kHangul | 종:0N |
| kHanYu | 42343.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42343.100:sǒng |
| kHKGlyph | 1419 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0739.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42343.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0399.290 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4B4B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BCA3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5851 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E9CD |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7076 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6C6B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5578 |
| kJapanese | ショウ シュ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SUSUMERU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 5649 |
| kKangXi | 0399.290 |
| kKorean | CONG |
| kLau | 2973 |
| kMandarin | sǒng |
| kMatthews | 5563 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011860 |
| kMorohashi | 11127 |
| kNelson | 1749 |
| kPhonetic | 329 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4890+61.4.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 61.11 |
| kSBGY | 239.28 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "怂" U+6002 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 230.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sǒng粵sung2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1981 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | túng |
| kXerox | 267:271 |
| kXHC1983 | 1092.111:sǒng |