U+520C "刌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

刌

U+520C "刌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that historically signifies the act of cutting or chopping, specifically in small increments or with precision, such as severing a piece from something larger. It combines the semantic component for "knife" (刂, derived from 刀) with a phonetic element related to "inch" or small measurement (寸), thereby conveying the idea of a measured or deliberate cut. This character appears in classical Chinese texts, including dictionaries like the Kangxi Zidian, where it is defined as "to cut off" or "to pare away," but it has fallen out of common modern usage. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encoded under the range for traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean logographs, serving as a digital representation of this obscure but historically meaningful glyph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+520C
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	刌
HTML Hex Encoding	刌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x88 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x520C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000520C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u520c

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	C96B
kCCCII	216B21
kCNS1986	2-214B
kCNS1992	2-214B
kCangjie	DILN
kCantonese	cyun2
kCihaiT	177.401
kDaeJaweon	0308.010
kDefinition	cut up small; divide
kFanqie	倉本
kFourCornerCode	4230.0
kGB3	2142
kGSR	0431c
kHanYu	10324.020
kHanyuPinyin	10324.020:cǔn
kIRGDaeJaweon	0308.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10324.020
kIRGKangXi	0136.210
kIRG_GSource	G3-354A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-C96B
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-007466
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-37AF
kIRG_KSource	K2-2459
kIRG_TSource	T2-214B
kIRG_VSource	V1-4C75
kJapanese	ソンセン
kJapaneseKun	KIRU TATSU SAKU
kJapaneseOn	SON SEN
kKangXi	0136.210
kKorean	CHON
kMandarin	cǔn
kMeyerWempe	3464b
kMojiJoho	MJ007466
kMorohashi	01870
kPhonetic	277
kRSUnicode	18.3
kSBGY	282.20
kTotalStrokes	5
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kVietnamese	thổn
kXHC1983	0185.010:cǔn