U+53EC "召" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+53EC "召" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "to call," "to summon," or "to convene," and it is composed of the radical 口 (mouth) and the phonetic component 刀 (knife), which together suggest the act of calling out or issuing a command. It is used in various East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it appears in words like 召集 (zhàojí / shōshū) meaning "to gather" or "assembly," and it often conveys the idea of an authoritative summons or invitation. Historically, this character has been employed in classical texts and official contexts to denote the calling of meetings or the summoning of individuals, reflecting its enduring relevance in formal and everyday communication.
General Properties
Code Point
U+53EC
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
召
HTML Hex Encoding
召
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x8F 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x53EC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000053EC
C/C++/Java Escape
\u53ec
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A56C
kCCCII
213536
kCNS1986
1-462E
kCNS1992
1-462E
kCangjie
SHR
kCantonese
ziu6
kCihaiT
243.501
kCowles
293
kDaeJaweon
0383.030
kDefinition
imperial decree; summon
kEACC
213536
kFanqie
直照 寔照
kFenn
715D
kFennIndex
20.06
kFourCornerCode
1760.2
kGB0
5357
kGB1
5357
kGradeLevel
4
kGSR
1131e
kHangul
소:0E
kHanYu
10574.030
kHanyuPinlu
zhào(235)
kHanyuPinyin
10574.030:zhào,shào
kHKGlyph
0478
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10574.030
kIRG_GSource
G0-5559
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A56C
kIRG_JSource
J0-3E24
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E2FA
kIRG_KSource
K0-612F
kIRG_TSource
T1-462E
kIRG_VSource
V1-4E3A
kJapanese
ショウ ジョウ チョウ めす まねく
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:334
kJapaneseKun
MESU
kJapaneseOn
SHOU
kJis0
3004
kKangXi
0172.070
kKorean
SO CO
kLau
1524
kMainlandTelegraph
0664
kMandarin
zhào
kMatthews
234
kMeyerWempe
317
kMojiJoho
MJ008033
kMorohashi
03241
kNelson
0668
kPhonetic
219 1353
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2444+18.2.3 C+2444+30.3.2
kRSUnicode
30.2
kSBGY
414.01 414.03
kSMSZD2003Index
88.02 56.08
kSMSZD2003Readings
zhào粵ziu6 shào粵siu6
kTaiwanTelegraph
0664
kTang
djhiɛ̀u
kTGHZ2013
328.020:shào 468.040:zhào
kTotalStrokes
5
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
chịu
kXerox
250:366
kXHC1983
1009.060:shào 1461.040:zhào