U+82CF "苏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+82CF "苏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with rich historical and linguistic significance. It is the simplified form of the traditional character "蘇" and is widely used in modern written Chinese, where it can mean "to revive" or "to restore," as seen in the word "复苏" meaning "to recover" or "resuscitate." Additionally, it serves as a phonetic component in place names and surnames, most notably representing the Suzhou area of Jiangsu province and the Soviet Union in historical contexts. In Japanese, the character is also used in the name "蘇" for the country of Russia (though less common now) and appears in various compounds related to revival and restoration.

General Properties

Code Point	U+82CF
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	苏
HTML Hex Encoding	苏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8B 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x82CF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000082CF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u82cf

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	27563C
kCangjie	TKSC
kCantonese	sou1
kDefinition	revive, resurrect; a species of thyme; transliteration of 'Soviet'
kEACC	27563C
kFourCornerCode	4433
kGB0	4353
kHanYu	53185.070
kHanyuPinlu	sū(33)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53185.070
kIRGKangXi	1022.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-4B55
kIRG_HSource	H-8977
kTGH	2013:677
kKangXi	1022.181
kMainlandTelegraph	5685
kMandarin	sū
kPhonetic	1223
kRSUnicode	140.4
kSimplifiedVariant	"苏" U+82CF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	574.09
kTGHZ2013	349.160,349.170:sū
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"囌" U+56CC CJK Unified Ideograph-# "苏" U+82CF CJK Unified Ideograph-# "蘇" U+8607 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXHC1983	1094.090:sū