U+8070 "聰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
聰
U+8070 "聰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji character that primarily means "intelligent," "clever," or "acute of hearing." Its form, composed of the radical for "ear" (耳) alongside components suggesting brightness or clarity, etymologically conveys the idea of sharp auditory perception, which metaphorically extends to mental acuity and wisdom. In modern usage, it appears in terms like "聰明" (cōngmíng, meaning smart or bright in Chinese) and is commonly found in classical literature and formal writing. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, representing a shared East Asian heritage where it retains similar meanings across different languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8070 |
| 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 | 聰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 聰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x81 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8070 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008070 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8070 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C16F |
| kCCCII | 215276 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7479 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7479 |
| kCangjie | SJHWP |
| kCantonese | cung1 |
| kCihaiT | 1085.201 |
| kCowles | 4843 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1419.150 |
| kDefinition | intelligent, clever, bright |
| kEACC | 215276 |
| kFanqie | 倉紅 |
| kFenn | 380B |
| kFennIndex | 565.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1613.0 |
| kGB1 | 2047 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 1199f |
| kHangul | 총:0E |
| kHanYu | 42795.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | cōng(96) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42795.010:cōng |
| kHKGlyph | 3253 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1419.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42795.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0969.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-344F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C16F |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6662 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EEAF |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7546 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7479 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6362 |
| kJapanese | ソウ ス |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | SATOI |
| kJapaneseOn | SOU |
| kJis0 | 7066 |
| kKangXi | 0969.060 |
| kKorean | CHONG |
| kLau | 429 |
| kMandarin | cōng |
| kMatthews | 6916 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3517 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ020871 MJ020871:E0102 MJ020872:E0103 MJ020873:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 29154 29154:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 326 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6223+128.6.11 V+13583+128.6.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 128.11 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8066<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "聪" U+806A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 547.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cōng粵cung1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5115 |
| kTang | tsung |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thông |
| kXerox | 245:120 |
| kXHC1983 | 0177.071:cōng |