U+7ECD "绍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7ECD "绍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning to continue or to inherit, and it is commonly used in words such as "介绍" meaning introduction. This logogram is composed of the radical for silk (纟) on the left, which often relates to threads or continuity, and the phonetic component 召 on the right, which hints at its pronunciation "shao." As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it is widely used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems, as well as in Japanese and Korean contexts, where it conveys the sense of connecting or linking something across time or generations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7ECD
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	绍
HTML Hex Encoding	绍
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xBB 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7ECD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007ECD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7ecd

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

kCCCII	27512A
kCangjie	VMSHR
kCantonese	siu6
kDefinition	continue, carry on; join
kEACC	27512A
kFourCornerCode	2716
kGB0	4160
kHanYu	53388.020
kHanyuPinlu	shào(156)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53388.020
kIRGKangXi	0944.251
kIRG_GSource	G0-495C
kTGH	2013:1348
kKangXi	0944.251
kMainlandTelegraph	4801
kMandarin	shào
kRSUnicode	120'.5
kTGHZ2013	328.050:shào
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"紹" U+7D39 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1010.010:shào