U+4F5C "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+4F5C "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character that primarily means "to do," "to make," "to write," "to compose," or "to act as," and it is widely used in both classical and modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts. Structurally, it combines the radical "亻" (person) on the left with the phonetic component "乍" on the right, indicating both a semantic connection to human action and a guide to pronunciation. In Chinese, it appears in common words like "工作" (work), "作家" (writer), and "作品" (artwork or composition), emphasizing themes of creation, labor, and authorship. Its Unicode designation as a CJK Unified Ideograph ensures consistent representation across digital systems for East Asian languages, making it a fundamental character for expressing productive or generative actions in written communication.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
作
HTML Hex Encoding
作
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE4 0xBD 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x4F5C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00004F5C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u4f5c

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
A740
kCCCII
21313F
kCNS1986
1-4922
kCNS1992
1-4922
kCangjie
OHS
kCantonese
zok3
kCihaiT
99.301
kCowles
4610
kDaeJaweon
0210.010
kDefinition
make; work; compose, write; act, perform
kEACC
21313F
kFanqie
臧祚 則箇 則落
kFenn
150C
kFennIndex
551.07 552.02 553.02
kFourCornerCode
2821.1
kGB0
5587
kGB1
5587
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0806l
kHangul
작:0E
kHanYu
10134.060
kHanyuPinlu
zuò(4832)
kHanyuPinyin
10134.060:zuò,zuō,zuó
kHKGlyph
0123
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10134.060
kIRG_GSource
G0-5777
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A740
kIRG_JSource
J0-3A6E
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E6C4
kIRG_KSource
K0-6D42
kIRG_TSource
T1-4922
kIRG_VSource
V1-4B33
kJapanese
サク サ ショ ソ つくる なす
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:777
kJapaneseKun
TSUKURU TSUKURI NASU
kJapaneseOn
SAKU SA
kJis0
2678
kKangXi
0099.070
kKarlgren
1151
kKorean
CAK CWU
kLau
1549
kMainlandTelegraph
0155
kMandarin
zuò
kMatthews
6780
kMeyerWempe
3450
kMojiJoho
MJ006647
kMorohashi
00518
kNelson
0407
kPhonetic
10 248
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2142+9.2.5
kRSUnicode
9.5
kSBGY
370.22 419.19 506.11
kSemanticVariant
U+20228
kSMSZD2003Index
25.10
kSMSZD2003Readings
zuò粵zok3 zuō粵zok3
kTaiwanTelegraph
0155
kTang
*tzɑk tzɑk
kTGHZ2013
496.130:zuō 497.010:zuò
kTotalStrokes
7
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
tác
kXerox
241:167
kXHC1983
1550.030:zuō 1550.080:zuó 1553.030,1554.031:zuò