U+522B "别" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+522B "别" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to separate," "to leave," or "other/another," and it is pronounced as "bié" in Mandarin. It is commonly used in everyday vocabulary, such as in the word "别人" (biérén) meaning "other people," and also serves as an adverb to convey a negative command, akin to "don't" in English, as in "别走" (biézǒu) for "don't go." This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block of the Unicode standard and carries rich semantic weight across East Asian languages, including its use in Japanese as "betsu" (meaning "different" or "separate") and in Korean as "byeol" (meaning "special" or "distinct").

General Properties

Code Point	U+522B
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	别
HTML Hex Encoding	别
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x88 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x522B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000522B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u522b

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

kCNS1986	E-2460
kCNS1992	3-2460
kCangjie	XRSLN
kCantonese	bit6
kDefinition	separate, other; do not
kEACC	4B335B
kFourCornerCode	6240
kGB0	1780
kGB1	1780
kHanYu	10328.130
kHanyuPinlu	bié(2043) biè(14)
kHanyuPinyin	10328.130:bié,biè
kHKGlyph	0336
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10328.130
kIRGKangXi	0138.281
kIRG_GSource	G0-3170
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-007501
kIRG_TSource	T3-2460
kJapanese	ベツ ヘツ わかれる
kTGH	2013:751
kJapaneseKun	WAKARERU WAKERU WAKARE
kJapaneseOn	BETSU BECHI
kKangXi	0138.281
kKorean	PYEL
kMainlandTelegraph	0446
kMandarin	bié
kMojiJoho	MJ007501
kMorohashi	01925
kPhonetic	1013* 1061
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19186+18.2.5
kRSUnicode	18.5
kSimplifiedVariant	"别" U+522B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTGHZ2013	023.120:bié 024.010:biè
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"別" U+5225 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "别" U+522B CJK Unified Ideograph-# "彆" U+5F46 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0073.070:bié 0074.020:biè