U+8088 "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+8088 "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to commence" or "to begin," often associated with initiating an action or undertaking, and it is also used as a component in words like "肇事" meaning "to cause trouble" or "to create an incident." This character is composed of the radical 肀 (yu, meaning "pen" or "writing") and the phonetic component 肇 (zhao), from which it derives its pronunciation and much of its meaning, and it falls under the category of traditional Chinese characters used in both Classical Chinese and modern contexts. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, it is encoded in Unicode to support the digital representation of East Asian scripts, allowing for its consistent use across computing systems and text processing.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
肈
HTML Hex Encoding
肈
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x82 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8088
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008088
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8088

Unihan Properties

kCCCII
2D5322
kCangjie
IILQ
kCantonese
siu6
kDaeJaweon
1424.010
kDefinition
to commence; to found; to devise. at first. to originate. to strike
kGB5
7122
kHanYu
53168.040
kHanyuPinyin
53168.040:zhào
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53168.040
kIRG_GSource
G5-6736
kIRG_JSource
J1-556B
kIRG_KSource
K2-5473
kIRG_TSource
T6-6060
kJapanese
チョウ ジョウ トウ ドウ はじめる
kJapaneseKun
HAJIME HAJIMERU
kJapaneseOn
CHOU JOU TOU DOU
kJis1
5375
kKangXi
0972.030
kLau
2863
kMandarin
zhào
kMatthews
245
kMojiJoho
MJ020910
kMorohashi
29230
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+19696+129.6.8
kRSUnicode
129.8
kSBGY
297.08
kSemanticVariant
U+8087<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
548.10
kTotalStrokes
14
kXHC1983
1460.041:zhào