U+8088 "肈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8088 "肈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to commence" or "to begin," often associated with initiating an action or undertaking, and it is also used as a component in words like "肇事" meaning "to cause trouble" or "to create an incident." This character is composed of the radical 肀 (yu, meaning "pen" or "writing") and the phonetic component 肇 (zhao), from which it derives its pronunciation and much of its meaning, and it falls under the category of traditional Chinese characters used in both Classical Chinese and modern contexts. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, it is encoded in Unicode to support the digital representation of East Asian scripts, allowing for its consistent use across computing systems and text processing.

General Properties

Code Point U+8088
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 肈
HTML Hex Encoding 肈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x82 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8088
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008088
C/C++/Java Escape \u8088

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 2D5322
kCangjie IILQ
kCantonese siu6
kDaeJaweon 1424.010
kDefinition to commence; to found; to devise. at first. to originate. to strike
kGB5 7122
kHanYu 53168.040
kHanyuPinyin 53168.040:zhào
kIRGDaeJaweon 1424.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53168.040
kIRGKangXi 0972.030
kIRG_GSource G5-6736
kIRG_JSource J1-556B
kIRG_KSource K2-5473
kIRG_TSource T6-6060
kJapanese チョウ ジョウ トウ ドウ はじめる
kJapaneseKun HAJIME HAJIMERU
kJapaneseOn CHOU JOU TOU DOU
kJis1 5375
kKangXi 0972.030
kLau 2863
kMandarin zhào
kMatthews 245
kMojiJoho MJ020910
kMorohashi 29230
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+19696+129.6.8
kRSUnicode 129.8
kSBGY 297.08
kSemanticVariant U+8087<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index 548.10
kTotalStrokes 14
kXHC1983 1460.041:zhào