U+9214 "鈔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
鈔
U+9214 "鈔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "banknote" or "paper money," and it also carries connotations of "to copy" or "to transcribe" in classical contexts. Its radical is 金 (gold or metal), which reflects its association with currency and value, while the component 少 (shao, meaning "few" or "little") contributes to its phonetic and semantic nuance. This character is commonly used in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean to refer to bills or notes, such as in the word 鈔票 (chāopiào) for "banknote," and it appears in historical texts related to financial transactions or written records.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9214 |
| 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 | 鈔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 鈔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x88 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9214 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009214 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9214 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B672 |
| kCCCII | 215D4B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6259 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6259 |
| kCangjie | CFH |
| kCantonese | caau1 |
| kCihaiT | 1372.503 |
| kCowles | 450 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1801.140 |
| kDefinition | paper money, bank notes; copy |
| kEACC | 215D4B |
| kFanqie | 楚交 初敎 |
| kFenn | 122H |
| kFennIndex | 21.12 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8912.0 |
| kGB1 | 1914 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 1158d |
| kHangul | 초:1N |
| kHanYu | 64176.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chāo(25) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64176.030:chāo,chǎo |
| kHKGlyph | 4240 |
| kIICore | ATJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1801.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64176.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1298.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-332E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B672 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6E64 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7FEA |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6F7D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6259 |
| kJapanese | ショウ ソウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | HASAMITORU KASUMERU UTSUSU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU BYOU |
| kJis0 | 7868 |
| kKangXi | 1298.220 |
| kKorean | CHO |
| kLau | 194 |
| kMandarin | chāo |
| kMatthews | 258 |
| kMeyerWempe | 125 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ026680 |
| kMorohashi | 40227 |
| kNelson | 4827 |
| kPhonetic | 1220 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6977+167.8.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 167.4 |
| kSBGY | 154.15 416.47 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "钞" U+949E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 718.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chāo粵caau1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6872 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 251:116 |