U+521D "初" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+521D "初" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "beginning" or "first" and is composed of the radical for clothing (衤) combined with the knife radical (刀), symbolically representing the act of cutting cloth to start making a garment. This ideograph is frequently used in compound words such as 初期 (chū qī) for "early period" and 最初 (zuì chū) for "initial" or "first," reflecting its core semantic role in denoting origins or precedence. In addition to its linguistic function, "初" carries cultural significance in East Asian traditions, often appearing in calendar systems, personal names, and various contexts like 初一 (chū yī) for the first day of a lunar month.
General Properties
Code Point
U+521D
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
初
HTML Hex Encoding
初
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x88 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding
0x521D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000521D
C/C++/Java Escape
\u521d
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
AAEC
kCCCII
21574E
kCNS1986
1-4F4F
kCNS1992
1-4F4F
kCangjie
LSH
kCantonese
co1
kCihaiT
178.405
kCowles
572
kDaeJaweon
0310.010
kDefinition
beginning, initial, primary
kEACC
21574E
kFanqie
楚居
kFenn
219A
kFennIndex
97.02
kFourCornerCode
3722.0
kGB0
1985
kGB1
1985
kGradeLevel
2
kGSR
0087a
kHangul
초:0E
kHanYu
10327.220
kHanyuPinlu
chū(405)
kHanyuPinyin
10327.220:chū
kHKGlyph
3679
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10327.220
kIRG_GSource
G0-3375
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AAEC
kIRG_JSource
J0-3D69
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-EDE0
kIRG_KSource
K0-7478
kIRG_TSource
T1-4F4F
kIRG_VSource
V1-4C79
kJapanese
ショ ソ はじめ はじめて はつ うい そめる うぶ
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:889
kJapaneseKun
HAJIME HATSU UI
kJapaneseOn
SHO SO
kJis0
2973
kKangXi
0137.330
kKorean
CHO
kLau
351
kMainlandTelegraph
0443
kMandarin
chū
kMatthews
1390
kMeyerWempe
326
kMojiJoho
MJ007483
kMorohashi
01911
kNelson
4215
kPhonetic
1353
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2419+18.2.5 C+2419+145.5.2
kRSUnicode
18.5 145.2
kSBGY
066.25
kSMSZD2003Index
57.11 627.02
kSMSZD2003Readings
chū粵co1
kTaiwanTelegraph
0443
kTang
*chriu
kTGHZ2013
049.090:chū
kTotalStrokes
8
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
sơ
kXerox
243:352
kXHC1983
0154.020:chū