U+5215 "刕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5215 "刕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character composed of three instances of the radical "刀" (knife) stacked vertically, which is often used as a variant or alternative form for "刂" or related knife-related glyphs in certain historical or handwritten contexts. This character, pronounced in Mandarin as "lǐ" or occasionally "lí," has limited modern usage but appears in classical texts, dictionaries, and specialized fonts, where it may denote a sense of cutting or layering. Its triple repetition structure aligns with other tripartite CJK characters, emphasizing intensification or plurality of the root meaning, though it is not commonly employed in contemporary writing or digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5215
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	刕
HTML Hex Encoding	刕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x88 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5215
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005215
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5215

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	236742
kCNS1986	E-2326
kCNS1992	3-2326
kCangjie	SHSHH
kCantonese	lei4
kDaeJaweon	0309.110
kFanqie	力脂
kGB5	2002
kHanYu	10324.130
kHanyuPinyin	10324.130:lí
kIBMJapan	FA84
kIRGDaeJaweon	0309.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10324.130
kIRGKangXi	0137.240
kIRG_GSource	G5-3422
kIRG_JSource	J13-2E5D
kIRG_KSource	K2-245E
kIRG_TSource	T3-2326
kJapanese	レイ リ ライ さく
kJIS0213	1,14,61
kJapaneseKun	SAKU
kJapaneseOn	RI REI RAI SAKU
kJis1	1921
kKangXi	0137.240
kKorean	LI LYE
kMandarin	lí
kMojiJoho	MJ007476
kMorohashi	01899
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8398+18.2.4
kRSUnicode	18.4
kSBGY	055.07
kTotalStrokes	6