U+521A "刚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+521A "刚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "just" or "firm" and is commonly used in modern Mandarin to express the concept of something happening immediately before the present moment, as in "刚才" (just now), or to denote hardness or rigidity, as in "刚强" (firm and unyielding). Its written form combines the radical for knife or sword on the right with a phonetic component on the left, reflecting its historical semantic ties to strength and sharpness. This character is frequently encountered in everyday writing and digital communication across Chinese-speaking communities.

General Properties

Code Point	U+521A
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	刚
HTML Hex Encoding	刚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x88 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x521A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000521A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u521a

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	273370
kCangjie	BKLN
kCantonese	gong1
kDefinition	hard, tough, rigid, strong
kEACC	273370
kFourCornerCode	7220
kGB0	2453
kHanYu	10326.060
kHanyuPinlu	gāng(873)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10326.060
kIRGKangXi	0137.301
kIRG_GSource	G0-3855
kTGH	2013:441
kKangXi	0137.301
kMainlandTelegraph	0474
kMandarin	gāng
kRSUnicode	18.4
kSMSZD2003Index	57.08
kTGHZ2013	107.140:gāng
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"剛" U+525B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0360.070:gāng