U+522A "刪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

刪

U+522A "刪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used primarily in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it conveys the meaning of "to delete," "to remove," or "to cut out." Its structure combines the radical for "knife" or "blade" with a phonetic component on the left, reflecting the original sense of cutting away text from a surface such as bamboo or paper. In modern usage, it appears in contexts like editing, computing commands for deletion, and formal writing where precision in removal is implied. While commonly replaced by the simplified character "删" in mainland China, it remains standard in regions using traditional characters, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, as well as in certain historical or literary texts throughout East Asia.

General Properties

Code Point	U+522A
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	刪
HTML Hex Encoding	刪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x88 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x522A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000522A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u522a

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	A752
kCCCII	21335C
kCNS1986	1-4934
kCNS1992	1-4934
kCangjie	BTLN
kCantonese	saan1
kCihaiT	179.101
kCowles	3795
kDaeJaweon	0311.060
kDefinition	to cut; delete, erase; to geld
kFanqie	所姦
kFourCornerCode	7240.0
kGradeLevel	4
kHangul	산:0N
kHanYu	10328.120
kHKGlyph	0337
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0311.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10328.120
kIRGKangXi	0138.281
kIRG_GSource	GE-3231
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A752
kIRG_JSource	J0-5168
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E1A5
kIRG_KSource	K0-5F22
kIRG_TSource	T1-4934
kJapanese	サンけずる
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	KEZURU
kJapaneseOn	SAN
kJis0	4972
kKangXi	0138.281
kKorean	SAN
kLau	2605
kMandarin	shān
kMatthews	5628
kMeyerWempe	2594
kMojiJoho	MJ007500
kMorohashi	01917
kPhonetic	19*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4255+18.2.5
kRSUnicode	18.5
kSBGY	127.19
kSemanticVariant	U+5220<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"删" U+5220 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	57.12
kSMSZD2003Readings	shān粵saan1
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kXerox	261:263
kXHC1983	0998.031:shān