U+66F9 "曹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+66F9 "曹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in multiple East Asian languages, including Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean, where it carries historical and linguistic significance. In modern Chinese, it often functions as a surname, famously associated with figures like Cao Cao, the influential warlord from the Three Kingdoms period, and also appears in words meaning "a class" or "a grade," such as in "de cao" for moral quality. The character is composed of the radical for "one" or "cover" and a phonetic component, and its usage extends to historical references, like the ancient state of Cao during the Zhou dynasty, as well as in Japanese for the word "kusa" in some contexts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+66F9
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
曹
HTML Hex Encoding
曹
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE6 0x9B 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x66F9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000066F9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u66f9
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
B1E4
kCCCII
214356
kCNS1986
1-5B2A
kCNS1992
1-5B2A
kCangjie
TWA
kCantonese
cou4
kCihaiT
651.401
kCowles
4789
kDaeJaweon
0876.030
kDefinition
ministry officials; surname
kEACC
214356
kFanqie
昨勞
kFenn
820F
kFennIndex
547.04
kFourCornerCode
5560.6
kGB0
1860
kGB1
1860
kGSR
1053a
kHangul
조:0N
kHanYu
21511.060
kHanyuPinyin
21511.060:cáo
kHKGlyph
1821
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21511.060
kIRG_GSource
G0-325C
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B1E4
kIRG_JSource
J0-4162
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E8FC
kIRG_KSource
K0-7047
kIRG_TSource
T1-5B2A
kIRG_VSource
V1-5879
kJapanese
ソウ ゾウ ともがら
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:2233
kJapaneseKun
TSUKASA TOMOGARA HEYA
kJapaneseOn
SOU
kJis0
3366
kKangXi
0502.130
kKorean
CO
kMainlandTelegraph
2580
kMandarin
cáo
kMatthews
6733
kMeyerWempe
3424
kMojiJoho
MJ013493
kMorohashi
14297
kNelson
2134
kPhonetic
231
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2788+72.4.7 C+2788+73.4.7
kRSUnicode
73.7
kSBGY
158.27
kSMSZD2003Index
298.04
kSMSZD2003Readings
cáo粵cou4
kTaiwanTelegraph
2580
kTang
*dzhɑu
kTGHZ2013
032.100:cáo
kTotalStrokes
11
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
tào
kXerox
253:354
kXHC1983
0106.030:cáo