U+624D "才" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
才
U+624D "才" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "talent," "ability," or "just now," functioning both as a noun and an adverb in classical and modern Chinese. It is composed of the radical for "hand" (扌) and a single horizontal stroke, symbolizing a sprouting plant or a person with skill, and it frequently appears in compounds such as 才能 (cái néng, meaning "talent") and 刚才 (gāng cái, meaning "just now"). In addition to its linguistic uses, the character carries cultural weight in East Asian contexts, often associated with wisdom, capability, and timeliness in idioms and proverbs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+624D |
| 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 | 才 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 才 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x89 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x624D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000624D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u624d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A47E |
| kCCCII | 213F7B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-445F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-445F |
| kCangjie | DH |
| kCantonese | coi4 |
| kCihaiT | 558.201 |
| kCowles | 4804 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0763.010 |
| kDefinition | talent, ability; just, only |
| kEACC | 28736D |
| kFanqie | 昨哉 |
| kFenn | 22C |
| kFennIndex | 539.04 540.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4020.0 |
| kGB0 | 1837 |
| kGB1 | 1837 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0943a |
| kHangul | 재:0E |
| kHanYu | 31824.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | cái(2108) cai(33) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31824.020:cái,zāi |
| kHKGlyph | 1481 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0763.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31824.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0416.300 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3245 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A47E |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3A4D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EBD8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6E26 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-445F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5647 |
| kJapanese | サイ ザイ わずかに ざえ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:29 |
| kJapaneseKun | WAZUKANI ZAE |
| kJapaneseOn | SAI ZAI |
| kJis0 | 2645 |
| kKangXi | 0416.300 |
| kKorean | CAY |
| kLau | 364 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2088 |
| kMandarin | cái |
| kMatthews | 6660 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3447 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012140 MJ012140:E0101 MJ059295:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 11769 11769:E0101 |
| kNelson | 0270 |
| kPhonetic | 24 247 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2109+64.3.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 64.0 |
| kSBGY | 099.49 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "才" U+624D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 239.07 3.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cái粵coi4 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+7E94<kFenn U+8CA1<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2088 |
| kTang | *dzhəi |
| kTGHZ2013 | 030.050,030.060:cái |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "才" U+624D CJK Unified Ideograph-# "纔" U+7E94 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tài |
| kXerox | 242:153 |
| kXHC1983 | 0099.010:cái |