U+52A3 "劣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

劣
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+52A3 "劣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that generally means "inferior," "bad," or "of poor quality," often contrasting with "優" (excellence). It is composed of the radical 力 (strength or power) combined with 少 (few or little), visually suggesting a lack of strength or insufficient power, which metaphorically extends to denote deficiency, weakness, or low status. This character appears frequently in Classical Chinese texts as well as modern usage, forming common words like 劣勢 (adverse situation or disadvantage) and 惡劣 (vile or abominable), and it holds consistent meaning across Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese contexts when used in borrowed Chinese vocabulary.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+52A3
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
劣
HTML Hex Encoding
劣
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x8A 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding
0x52A3
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000052A3
C/C++/Java Escape
\u52a3

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
A648
kCCCII
213427
kCNS1986
1-4749
kCNS1992
1-4749
kCangjie
FHKS
kCantonese
lyut3
kCihaiT
194.301
kCowles
2478
kDaeJaweon
0330.060
kDefinition
bad, inferior; slightly
kEACC
213427
kFanqie
力輟
kFenn
223F
kFennIndex
306.02
kFourCornerCode
9042.7
kGB0
3351
kGB1
3351
kGradeLevel
4
kHangul
렬:0E 열:0
kHanYu
10367.050
kHanyuPinlu
liè(26)
kHanyuPinyin
10367.050:liè
kHKGlyph
0378
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10367.050
kIRG_GSource
G0-4153
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A648
kIRG_JSource
J0-4E74
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-D8B2
kIRG_KSource
K0-562B
kIRG_TSource
T1-4749
kIRG_VSource
V2-8A54
kJapanese
レツ レチ おとる
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:416
kJapaneseKun
OTORU
kJapaneseOn
RETSU
kJis0
4684
kKangXi
0146.170
kKorean
LYEL
kLau
1984
kMainlandTelegraph
0503
kMandarin
liè
kMatthews
4302
kMeyerWempe
1672
kMojiJoho
MJ007629
kMorohashi
02302
kNelson
0185
kPhonetic
836
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4028+19.2.4
kRSUnicode
19.4
kSBGY
499.30
kSMSZD2003Index
65.16 176.05
kSMSZD2003Readings
liè粵lyut3,lyut6
kTaiwanTelegraph
0503
kTang
liuɛt
kTGHZ2013
224.010:liè
kTotalStrokes
6
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
251:376
kXHC1983
0714.060:liè