U+5225 "別" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
別
U+5225 "別" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese and Japanese character that fundamentally conveys the concept of separation, distinction, or difference. It is commonly used in compound words such as 特別 (special) and 分別 (to separate or to distinguish), and in Japanese it appears in terms like 別に (especially not). The character is composed of the radical for knife (刂) on the right, suggesting the act of cutting apart, combined with a simplified left component that originally depicted a bone or flesh, reinforcing its core meaning of dividing or setting apart. As a frequently employed character in East Asian writing systems, it appears across a wide range of contexts from everyday vocabulary to formal literary texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5225 |
| 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 | 別 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 別 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x88 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5225 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005225 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5225 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A74F |
| kCCCII | 21335B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4931 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4931 |
| kCangjie | RSLN |
| kCantonese | bit6 |
| kCihaiT | 179.401 |
| kCowles | 3318 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0312.010 |
| kDefinition | separate, other; do not |
| kEACC | 21335B |
| kFanqie | 皮列 方别 |
| kFenn | 224aA |
| kFennIndex | 407.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6220.0 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0292a |
| kHangul | 별:0E |
| kHanYu | 10328.131 |
| kHanyuPinlu | bié(2043) biè(14) |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0312.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10328.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0138.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-322E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A74F |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4A4C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DDF5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5C2C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4931 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4C7C |
| kJapanese | ベツ ヘツ ベチ わかれる わかち わかれ わける |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | WAKARERU WAKERU WAKARE |
| kJapaneseOn | BETSU BECHI |
| kJis0 | 4244 |
| kKangXi | 0138.120 |
| kKorean | PYEL |
| kLau | 108 |
| kMandarin | bié |
| kMatthews | 5208 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2389 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007494 |
| kMorohashi | 01924 |
| kNelson | 0674 |
| kPhonetic | 1061 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3612+18.2.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 18.5 |
| kSBGY | 499.47 500.04 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "别" U+522B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 57.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bié粵bit6 biè粵bit6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0446 |
| kTang | *bhyɛt |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | biết |
| kXerox | 242:130 |