U+8087 "肇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
肇
U+8087 "肇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to start" or "to initiate" and is often used in contexts relating to beginning events, establishing causes, or original creation, as seen in words like "肇事" (to cause an accident) or "肇始" (to begin). It is composed of the radical 聿 (writing brush) atop the phonetic component 肀, reflecting its historical association with the act of beginning or recording an origin. In modern usage, it appears in both formal and literary contexts, as well as in proper names and historical references.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8087 |
| 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 | 肇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 肇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x82 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8087 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008087 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8087 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BB46 |
| kCCCII | 215322 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6A4E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6A4E |
| kCangjie | HKLQ |
| kCantonese | siu6 |
| kCihaiT | 1088.101 |
| kCowles | 3970 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1423.160 |
| kDefinition | begin, commence, originate |
| kEACC | 215322 |
| kFenn | 669H |
| kFennIndex | 21.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3850.7 |
| kGB0 | 5356 |
| kGB1 | 5356 |
| kGSR | 1146a |
| kHangul | 조:0N |
| kHanYu | 53168.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53168.050:zhào |
| kHKGlyph | 3264 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1423.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53168.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0972.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5558 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BB46 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4825 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E9B3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-705C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6A4E |
| kJapanese | チョウ トウ はじめ はじめる |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3178 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAJIMERU HAJIME |
| kJapaneseOn | CHOU |
| kJis0 | 4005 |
| kKangXi | 0972.020 |
| kKarlgren | 336 |
| kKorean | CO |
| kLau | 2863 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5128 |
| kMandarin | zhào |
| kMatthews | 245 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ020908 MJ020908:E0102 MJ020907:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 29228:E0103 |
| kNelson | 3723 |
| kPhonetic | 563 1222 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3385+129.6.8 V+13980+129.6.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 129.8 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8088<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 548.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhào粵siu6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5128 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 469.020:zhào |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 260:132 |
| kXHC1983 | 1460.040:zhào |