U+5205 "刅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5205 "刅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character primarily used in historical or classical texts, with its form composed of the radical for knife or sword (刂) combined with two additional stroke elements, suggesting a meaning related to cutting, carving, or separating. Its usage appears in ancient writings and some traditional compound words, but it is not commonly found in modern standard Chinese, often being replaced by more common characters like 刂 or 切 in contemporary contexts. The character's encoding in Unicode ensures its representation for digital preservation and scholarly study of historical linguistics and calligraphy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5205
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	刅
HTML Hex Encoding	刅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x88 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5205
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005205
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5205

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	236737
kCNS1986	E-2152
kCNS1992	3-2152
kCangjie	SHC
kCantonese	cong1
kCihaiT	174.103
kDaeJaweon	0304.110
kDefinition	to create, to make to invent; to begin
kHanYu	10323.010
kHanyuPinyin	10323.010:chuāng
kIRGDaeJaweon	0304.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10323.010
kIRGKangXi	0136.030
kIRG_GSource	GE-3229
kIRG_HSource	H-89E1
kIRG_JSource	J1-3332
kIRG_KSource	K2-2456
kIRG_TSource	T3-2152
kJapanese	ソウ ショウ きず
kJapaneseKun	KEZUSHIKERU
kJapaneseOn	SOU SHOU
kJis1	1918
kKangXi	0136.030
kKorean	CHANG
kMandarin	chuāng
kMatthews	1462
kMojiJoho	MJ007454
kMorohashi	01852
kPhonetic	254
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19183+18.2.2
kRSUnicode	18.2
kSemanticVariant	U+5275<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes	4
kUnihanCore2020	H