U+521F "刟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
刟
U+521F "刟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that primarily appears in classical or historical texts, where it often functions as a variant or simplified form of the character 刀 (dāo), meaning "knife" or "sword," though it can also be associated with the action of cutting or carving. Its structure combines the knife radical (刂) with the phonetic component 召 (zhào), suggesting a possible connection to sounds or meanings related to summoning or cutting, though its exact usage is limited and largely archaic. This character is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese, making it a point of interest for scholars studying ancient inscriptions or specialized calligraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+521F |
| 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 | 刟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 刟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x88 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x521F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000521F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u521f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 396B2F |
| kCNS1986 | E-245F |
| kCNS1992 | 3-245F |
| kCangjie | SRLN |
| kCantonese | diu1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0311.050 |
| kEACC | 396B2F |
| kHanYu | 10332.010 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0311.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10332.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0138.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-322C |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9FCD |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-007485 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-245F |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-3049 |
| kJapanese | チョウ |
| kJapaneseKun | TATSU |
| kJapaneseOn | CHOU |
| kKangXi | 0138.030 |
| kMandarin | diāo |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007485 |
| kMorohashi | 01916 |
| kRSUnicode | 18.5 |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |
| kVietnamese | xẻo |