U+5FAD "徭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+5FAD "徭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally pronounced as "yáo" in Mandarin, and it primarily refers to forced labor or corvée service imposed by ancient Chinese authorities on common people. Historically, this ideograph appears in classical texts to describe the compulsory, often unpaid work that peasants were required to perform for state projects, such as constructing roads, canals, or palaces. In modern usage, the character retains its association with burdensome or compulsory tasks, though it is less commonly employed in everyday language outside of historical or literary contexts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+5FAD
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
徭
HTML Hex Encoding
徭
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0xBE 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5FAD
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005FAD
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5fad
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
DD64
kCCCII
222A47
kCNS1986
2-426A
kCNS1992
2-426A
kCangjie
HOBOU
kCantonese
jiu4
kCihaiT
517.203
kCowles
1396
kDaeJaweon
0696.140
kDefinition
conscript labor, compulsory labor
kEACC
4C7328
kFanqie
餘昭
kFourCornerCode
2727.2
kGB0
6570
kGB1
6570
kGSR
1144e
kHangul
요:1N
kHanYu
20839.030
kHanyuPinyin
20839.030:yáo
kIICore
CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
20839.030
kIRG_GSource
G0-6166
kIRG_HSource
HB2-DD64
kIRG_JSource
J0-5754
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-424B
kIRG_KSource
K1-6876
kIRG_TSource
T2-426A
kJapanese
ヨウ えだち
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:5508
kJapaneseKun
EDACHI
kJapaneseOn
YOU
kJis0
5552
kKangXi
0370.100
kKarlgren
221
kKorean
YO
kMainlandTelegraph
1791
kMandarin
yáo
kMatthews
7285
kMeyerWempe
920c
kMojiJoho
MJ011341
kMorohashi
10201
kPhonetic
1597
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4799+60.3.10
kRSUnicode
60.10
kSemanticVariant
U+509C<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
215.06
kSMSZD2003Readings
yáo粵jiu4
kTaiwanTelegraph
1791
kTGHZ2013
427.220:yáo
kTotalStrokes
13
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
276:341
kXHC1983
1342.010:yáo