U+8096 "肖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
肖
U+8096 "肖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "similar" or "resembling," and it is also commonly used as a surname in Chinese-speaking cultures. This ideograph is composed of the radical for "flesh" or "body" and a phonetic component, reflecting its historical development in classical Chinese texts where it often described likeness or imitation. In modern usage, it appears in words like "肖像" (portrait) and "生肖" (Chinese zodiac), as well as in the Japanese "Shō" or Korean "Cho" readings, maintaining its core semantic association with visual or conceptual resemblance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8096 |
| 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 | 肖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 肖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x82 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8096 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008096 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8096 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A876 |
| kCCCII | 21532B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4B39 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4B39 |
| kCangjie | FB |
| kCantonese | ciu3 |
| kCihaiT | 1088.505 |
| kCowles | 4771 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1425.200 |
| kDefinition | look like, resemble, be like |
| kEACC | 21532B |
| kFanqie | 私妙 |
| kFenn | 124F |
| kFennIndex | 173.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9022.7 |
| kGB0 | 4804 |
| kGB1 | 4804 |
| kGSR | 1149g |
| kHangul | 초:0E |
| kHanYu | 32045.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xiào(50) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32045.060:xiào,xiāo |
| kHKGlyph | 3269 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1425.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32045.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0973.250 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5024 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A876 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3E53 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EDF1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-752B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4B39 |
| kJapanese | ショウ かたどる にる あやかる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:713 |
| kJapaneseKun | NIRU KATADORU AYAKARU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 3051 |
| kKangXi | 0973.250 |
| kKorean | CHO SO |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5135 |
| kMandarin | xiào |
| kMatthews | 2606 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3399 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ020928 MJ020928:E0102 MJ020927:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 29263' 29263':E0102 29263:E0103 |
| kNelson | 1360 |
| kPhonetic | 220 1220 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2491+42.3.4 C+2491+130.4.3 V+13838+42.3.4 V+13838+130.4.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 130.3 |
| kSBGY | 413.32 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 549.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiào粵ciu3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5135 |
| kTang | siɛ̀u |
| kTGHZ2013 | 402.070:xiāo 404.050:xiào |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 264:277 |
| kXHC1983 | 1262.040:xiāo 1272.020:xiào |