U+8202 "舂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
舂
U+8202 "舂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means to pound or to grind, often referring to the action of using a mortar and pestle to process grains like rice. Its structure combines the radical for "mortar" (臼) with components suggesting heavy movement, reflecting its ancient use in food preparation. In classical texts, this ideograph appears in contexts describing agricultural or culinary labor, and it is still recognized in modern Chinese and Japanese kanji systems, though its usage has become less common in everyday language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8202 |
| 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 | 舂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 舂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x88 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8202 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008202 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8202 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B2EA |
| kCCCII | 215430 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5C6F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5C6F |
| kCangjie | QKHX |
| kCantonese | zung1 |
| kCihaiT | 1112.606 |
| kCowles | 386 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1460.140 |
| kDefinition | grind in mortar |
| kEACC | 215430 |
| kFanqie | 書容 |
| kFenn | 473G |
| kFennIndex | 103.08 111.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5077.7 |
| kGB0 | 8409 |
| kGB1 | 8409 |
| kGSR | 1192a |
| kHangul | 용:1N |
| kHanYu | 53039.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53039.040:chōng,chuāng,zhōng |
| kHKGlyph | 3370 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1460.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53039.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1003.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7429 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B2EA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-674E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6C50 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-692B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5C6F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-643E |
| kJapanese | ショウ シュ ソウ つく うすづく |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4712 |
| kJapaneseKun | USUZUKU TSUKU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU SOU |
| kJis0 | 7146 |
| kKangXi | 1003.200 |
| kKorean | YONG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5277 |
| kMandarin | chōng |
| kMatthews | 1525 |
| kMeyerWempe | 418 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021329 MJ021329:E0101 MJ021330:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 30195 30195:E0101 |
| kNelson | 3852 |
| kPhonetic | 251A 323 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6297+134.6.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 134.5 |
| kSBGY | 034.28 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 566.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chōng粵zung1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5277 |
| kTang | shiong |
| kTGHZ2013 | 047.090:chōng |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kVietnamese | thung |
| kXerox | 270:162 |
| kXHC1983 | 0147.050:chōng |