U+8087 "肇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

肇
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+8087 "肇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to start" or "to initiate" and is often used in contexts relating to beginning events, establishing causes, or original creation, as seen in words like "肇事" (to cause an accident) or "肇始" (to begin). It is composed of the radical 聿 (writing brush) atop the phonetic component 肀, reflecting its historical association with the act of beginning or recording an origin. In modern usage, it appears in both formal and literary contexts, as well as in proper names and historical references.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+8087
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
肇
HTML Hex Encoding
肇
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x82 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8087
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008087
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8087

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
BB46
kCCCII
215322
kCNS1986
1-6A4E
kCNS1992
1-6A4E
kCangjie
HKLQ
kCantonese
siu6
kCihaiT
1088.101
kCowles
3970
kDaeJaweon
1423.160
kDefinition
begin, commence, originate
kEACC
215322
kFenn
669H
kFennIndex
21.01
kFourCornerCode
3850.7
kGB0
5356
kGB1
5356
kGSR
1146a
kHangul
조:0N
kHanYu
53168.050
kHanyuPinyin
53168.050:zhào
kHKGlyph
3264
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53168.050
kIRG_GSource
G0-5558
kIRG_HSource
HB1-BB46
kIRG_JSource
J0-4825
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E9B3
kIRG_KSource
K0-705C
kIRG_TSource
T1-6A4E
kJapanese
チョウ トウ はじめ はじめる
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3178
kJapaneseKun
HAJIMERU HAJIME
kJapaneseOn
CHOU
kJis0
4005
kKangXi
0972.020
kKarlgren
336
kKorean
CO
kLau
2863
kMainlandTelegraph
5128
kMandarin
zhào
kMatthews
245
kMojiJoho
MJ020908 MJ020908:E0102 MJ020907:E0103
kMorohashi
29228:E0103
kNelson
3723
kPhonetic
563 1222
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+3385+129.6.8 V+13980+129.6.8
kRSUnicode
129.8
kSemanticVariant
U+8088<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
548.09
kSMSZD2003Readings
zhào粵siu6
kTaiwanTelegraph
5128
kTGHZ2013
469.020:zhào
kTotalStrokes
14
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
260:132
kXHC1983
1460.040:zhào