U+51CF "减" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
减
U+51CF "减" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "to decrease," "to subtract," or "to reduce." It is composed of the radical for ice or cold (冫) combined with the phonetic component 咸, and it appears in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese as well as in Japanese and Korean kanji and hanja. This character is commonly used in mathematics to denote subtraction and in everyday language to express lowering quantities, intensity, or speed, such as in the word 减法 meaning "subtraction" or 减少 meaning "to reduce."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+51CF |
| 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 | 减 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 减 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x87 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x51CF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000051CF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u51cf |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 216A52 |
| kCNS1986 | E-344F |
| kCNS1992 | 3-344F |
| kCangjie | IMIHR |
| kCantonese | gaam2 |
| kCowles | 1458 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0297.070 |
| kDefinition | decrease, subtract, diminish |
| kEACC | 2D4829 |
| kFennIndex | 60.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3315 |
| kGB0 | 2885 |
| kGB1 | 2885 |
| kHanYu | 10299.180 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiǎn(300) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0297.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10299.180 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0133.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3C75 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-FAA3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-3322 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-377A |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2445 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-344F |
| kJapanese | ゲン へる |
| kTGH | 2013:2375 |
| kJapaneseKun | HERU HERASU |
| kJapaneseOn | GEN |
| kJis1 | 1902 |
| kKangXi | 0133.020 |
| kKarlgren | 148 |
| kKorean | KAM |
| kLau | 804 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 8096 |
| kMandarin | jiǎn |
| kMatthews | 828 |
| kMeyerWempe | 961 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007398 |
| kMorohashi | 01675 |
| kPhonetic | 419 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19177+15.2.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 15.9 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6E1B<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "减" U+51CF CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 53.09 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0409 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 164.120:jiǎn |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "减" U+51CF CJK Unified Ideograph-# "減" U+6E1B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXerox | 324:112 |
| kXHC1983 | 0552.070:jiǎn |