U+522D "刭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+522D "刭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means to cut or to behead, and it is composed of the radical for a knife or sword (刂) on the right side and a phonetic component on the left. This character is historically used in classical Chinese texts, often in the context of execution or severe punishment, such as the term "自刭," which describes the act of cutting one's own throat. It is a relatively uncommon character in modern Chinese, but it retains its place in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block for historical and literary use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+522D
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	刭
HTML Hex Encoding	刭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x88 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x522D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000522D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u522d

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	276B3E
kCangjie	NMLN
kCantonese	ging2
kDefinition	cut throat
kEACC	276B3E
kFourCornerCode	1210
kGB0	5657
kHanYu	10332.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10332.020
kIRGKangXi	0138.281
kIRG_GSource	G0-5859
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-057045
kJapanese	ケイ くびきる
kTGH	2013:3818
kKangXi	0138.281
kMainlandTelegraph	0462
kMandarin	jǐng
kMojiJoho	MJ057045
kPhonetic	623*
kRSUnicode	18.5
kSMSZD2003Index	58.06
kTGHZ2013	179.130:jǐng
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"剄" U+5244 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0601.040:jǐng