U+7D39 "紹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7D39 "紹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "to continue" or "to inherit," commonly used in contexts of succession or linking generations, such as in the word "紹介" (shōkai) meaning "introduction" in Japanese. This ideograph combines the radical for silk or thread (糸) on the left, suggesting connection, with the component 召 (shō) on the right, which contributes phonetic value. Originating from traditional Chinese script, it appears in modern standard Chinese as shào and in Japanese as jō or shō, often appearing in formal or historical texts. The character carries the connotation of bridging or passing on a legacy, and it is encoded in Unicode’s CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a broad region of East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7D39
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	紹
HTML Hex Encoding	紹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xB4 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7D39
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007D39
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7d39

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	B2D0
kCCCII	21512A
kCNS1986	1-5C55
kCNS1992	1-5C55
kCangjie	VFSHR
kCantonese	siu6
kCihaiT	1039.301
kCowles	3969
kDaeJaweon	1352.130
kDefinition	continue, carry on; hand down; to join
kEACC	21512A
kFanqie	市沼
kFenn	715H
kFennIndex	440.10
kFourCornerCode	2796.2
kGB1	4160
kGradeLevel	5
kGSR	1131z
kHangul	소:0N
kHanYu	53388.010
kHanyuPinlu	shào(156)
kHanyuPinyin	53388.010:shào,chāo
kHKGlyph	3082
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1352.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53388.010
kIRGKangXi	0920.160
kIRG_GSource	G1-495C
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B2D0
kIRG_JSource	J0-3E52
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E3B6
kIRG_KSource	K0-6149
kIRG_TSource	T1-5C55
kIRG_VSource	V1-625A
kJapanese	ショウ ジョウ つぐ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	TSUGU
kJapaneseOn	SHOU JOU
kJis0	3050
kKangXi	0920.160
kKorean	SO
kLau	2861
kMandarin	shào
kMatthews	5689
kMeyerWempe	2748
kMojiJoho	MJ020036
kMorohashi	27361
kNelson	3516
kPhonetic	219
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2490+120.6.5
kRSUnicode	120.5
kSBGY	298.30
kSemanticVariant	U+4F4B<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"绍" U+7ECD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	518.02
kSMSZD2003Readings	shào粵siu6
kTaiwanTelegraph	4801
kTang	zhiɛ̌u
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	thiệu
kXerox	251:133