U+5202 "刂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5202 "刂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a radical and character component in the Chinese writing system, commonly known as the "knife" or "sword" radical, and it represents the meaning of cutting, slicing, or a blade. It is a simplified form of the full character "刀" (dāo) and appears primarily as a left-side component in compound characters, where it often modifies the meaning to involve actions or objects related to cutting, such as in "到" (dào, meaning to arrive, originally implying cutting through) and "别" (bié, meaning to separate). This ideograph is used across multiple East Asian scripts, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and it preserves a direct pictographic connection to an ancient knife shape, making it a key element in understanding the semantic structure of many written characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+5202
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 刂
HTML Hex Encoding 刂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x88 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5202
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005202
C/C++/Java Escape \u5202

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

kCCCII 216A7B
kCangjie LN
kCantonese dou1
kDaeJaweon 0304.060
kDefinition knife; radical number 18
kEACC 2D334F
kFourCornerCode 2200
kGB0 5654
kGB1 5654
kHanYu 10320.010
kIRGDaeJaweon 0304.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10320.010
kIRGKangXi 0136.010
kIRG_GSource G0-5856
kIRG_HSource H-C87D
kIRG_JSource J14-2335
kIRG_KSource K2-2454
kIRG_TSource T4-212A
kJapanese トウ
kJIS0213 2,03,21
kJapaneseKun RITSUTOU
kJapaneseOn TAU
kJis1 1917
kKangXi 0136.010
kKorean TO
kMandarin dāo
kMatthews 6124
kMojiJoho MJ007449
kMorohashi 01847
kPhonetic 1128
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+14356+18.2.0
kRSUnicode 18.0
kSemanticVariant U+5200<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes 2
kUnihanCore2020 GH
kXerox 324:310