U+8A54 "詔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8A54 "詔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically means an imperial edict or decree issued by a sovereign. This ideograph is composed of the radical for "speech" or "words" on the left, combined with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its association with authoritative verbal commands. In traditional East Asian contexts, particularly in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, this character was used in official documents to denote proclamations from the emperor. While its usage in modern everyday writing is rare, it remains a significant term in historical texts, classical literature, and legal archaeology. The character is encoded in Unicode under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a shared heritage among Chinese-character-using cultures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8A54
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	詔
HTML Hex Encoding	詔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA9 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8A54
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008A54
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8a54

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

kBigFive	B640
kCCCII	215852
kCNS1986	1-6227
kCNS1992	1-6227
kCangjie	YRSHR
kCantonese	ziu3
kCihaiT	1241.301
kCowles	292
kDaeJaweon	1620.260
kDefinition	decree, proclaim; imperial decree
kEACC	215852
kFanqie	之少
kFenn	715F
kFennIndex	20.07
kFourCornerCode	0766.2
kGB1	5815
kGSR	1131q
kHangul	조:0N
kHanYu	63959.050
kHanyuPinyin	63959.050:zhào,zhāo
kHKGlyph	3776
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1620.260
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63959.050
kIRGKangXi	1155.030
kIRG_GSource	G1-5A2F
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B640
kIRG_JSource	J0-3E5B
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E9B6
kIRG_KSource	K0-705F
kIRG_TSource	T1-6227
kIRG_VSource	V1-6726
kJapanese	ショウ みことのり
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	MIKOTONORI TSUGERU
kJapaneseOn	SHOU
kJis0	3059
kKangXi	1155.030
kKorean	CO
kMandarin	zhào
kMatthews	239
kMeyerWempe	316a
kMojiJoho	MJ024428
kMorohashi	35379
kNelson	4333
kPhonetic	219
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2499+149.7.5
kRSUnicode	149.5
kSBGY	413.37
kSimplifiedVariant	"诏" U+8BCF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	645.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhào粵ziu3
kTaiwanTelegraph	6096
kTang	*jiɛ̀u
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	chiếu
kXerox	264:070