U+965E "陞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
陞
U+965E "陞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character meaning "to ascend," "to rise," or "to promote," and it often appears in contexts related to elevation in rank, status, or physical height. In its composition, the character combines the radical for "mound" or "hill" (阝 on the left) with a phonetic component indicating sound, reflecting its historical use in Classical Chinese and Japanese (where it is also read as "shō" or "noboru" in kanji). It is a less common variant of the more standard character "升" (shēng) but retains specific nuances in formal or literary texts, particularly during the Ming and Qing dynasties where it was used in official titles and temple names.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+965E |
| 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 | 陞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 陞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x99 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x965E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000965E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u965e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B0A5 |
| kCCCII | 39345B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5868 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5868 |
| kCangjie | NLHTG |
| kCantonese | sing1 |
| kCihaiT | 1422.201 |
| kCowles | 3944 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1853.260 |
| kDefinition | promote, rise, ascend |
| kEACC | 39345B |
| kFanqie | 識蒸 |
| kFenn | 414D |
| kFennIndex | 447.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7421.4 |
| kGB8 | 1571 |
| kGSR | 0897d |
| kHangul | 승:0N |
| kHanYu | 64132.010 |
| kIICore | ATJHKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1853.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64132.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1351.150 |
| kIRG_GSource | G8-2F67 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B0A5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6F7E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E4F8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6333 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5868 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6B28 |
| kJapanese | ショウ のぼる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6909 |
| kJapaneseKun | NOBORU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 7994 |
| kKangXi | 1351.150 |
| kKorean | SUNG |
| kLau | 2820 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7105 |
| kMandarin | shēng |
| kMatthews | 5747 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2725 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ027595 |
| kMorohashi | 41658 |
| kNelson | 4989 |
| kPhonetic | 1205 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7097+170.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 170.7 |
| kSBGY | 199.41 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 751.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shēng粵sing1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7105 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 332.100:shēng |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thăng |
| kXerox | 262:367 |
| kXHC1983 | 1028.052:shēng |