U+8457 "著" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
著
U+8457 "著" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to manifest," "to show," or "to write," functioning as a versatile logogram in East Asian languages including Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean. It is composed of a "grass" radical (艹) atop a phonetic component (者), and its readings vary by language, such as zhe or zhuó in Mandarin, chaku or cho in Japanese, and cheo in Korean. Historically, it evolved from a depiction of a plant sprouting, symbolizing the idea of something becoming visible or established, and it is commonly used in words like "著者" (author) and "著名" (famous), reflecting its core sense of prominence or record.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8457 |
| 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 | 著 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 著 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x91 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8457 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008457 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8457 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B5DB |
| kCCCII | 21554E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6161 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6161 |
| kCangjie | TJKA |
| kCantonese | zyu3 |
| kCihaiT | 1153.303 |
| kCowles | 177 336 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1505.190 |
| kDefinition | manifest; (Cant.) to wear |
| kEACC | 21554E |
| kFanqie | 直魚 丁吕 陟慮 張略 直略 |
| kFenn | 192C |
| kFennIndex | 19.09 22.02 22.03 88.08 96.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4460.4 |
| kGB0 | 5488 |
| kGB1 | 5488 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0045n' |
| kHangul | 저:0E |
| kHanYu | 53228.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhe(10643) zháo(545) zhù(275) zhuó(125) zhāo(15) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53228.020:zhù,chú,zhuó,zhāo,zháo,zhe |
| kHKGlyph | 3479 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1505.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53228.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1044.260 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5678 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B5DB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4378 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E7B6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6E4A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6161 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-653C |
| kJapanese | チョ チャク ジャク あらわす いちじるしい あらわれる きる つく |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2198 |
| kJapaneseKun | ARAWASU ICHIJIRUSHI TSUKU |
| kJapaneseOn | CHO CHAKU JAKU |
| kJis0 | 3588 |
| kKangXi | 1044.260 |
| kKorean | CE CHAK |
| kLau | 1386 1574 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5511 |
| kMandarin | zhù zhe |
| kMatthews | 1361 |
| kMeyerWempe | 200 356 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022326 MJ030294:FE00 MJ022326:E0102 MJ022327:E0103 MJ030294:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 31302 31302:E0102 31410:E0103 |
| kNelson | 3983 3985 |
| kPhonetic | 94 264 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2998+140.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.8 |
| kSBGY | 071.04 257.26 362.29 504.09 504.15 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7740 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "着" U+7740 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "著" U+8457 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 588.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhù粵zyu3 zhuó粵zoek6 zhuó粵zoek3 zhù,zhuó粵zoek6,zyu3 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+7740<kFenn U+87AB<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5511 |
| kTang | *djiù *djiɑk djhiɑk |
| kTGHZ2013 | 485.190:zhù 490.040:zhuó |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "著" U+8457 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | trứ |
| kXerox | 241:105 |
| kXHC1983 | 1465.061:zhe 1514.040:zhù 1527.031:zhuó |