U+5232 "刲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5232 "刲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily carries the meaning "to cut open" or "to carve out," often associated with the act of slitting or opening something, such as an animal's belly. Historically, it appears in classical Chinese texts, including the "Zhou Li" (Rites of Zhou), where it describes specific ritual or practical actions related to butchery or dissection. Its composition combines the "knife" radical (刂) on the right, indicating a cutting action, and the phonetic component "圭" on the left, which provides pronunciation cues. In modern usage, this character is rare and largely limited to specialized historical or literary contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+5232
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 刲
HTML Hex Encoding 刲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x88 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5232
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005232
C/C++/Java Escape \u5232

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 CBD1
kCCCII 216B37
kCNS1986 2-2551
kCNS1992 2-2551
kCangjie GGLN
kCantonese gwai1
kCihaiT 181.602
kDaeJaweon 0315.050
kDefinition cut, slice off
kEACC 216B37
kFanqie 苦圭
kFourCornerCode 4210.0
kGB3 1887
kGB8 9029
kGSR 0879h
kHangul 규:1N
kHanYu 10332.120
kHanyuPinyin 10332.120:kuī
kIRGDaeJaweon 0315.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10332.120
kIRGKangXi 0138.410
kIRG_GSource G3-3277
kIRG_HSource HB2-CBD1
kIRG_JSource J1-333B
kIRG_KPSource KP1-37C6
kIRG_KSource K1-5B36
kIRG_TSource T2-2551
kJapanese ケイ さく
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun SASU SAKU EGURU KOROSU
kJapaneseOn KEI KE
kJis1 1927
kKangXi 0138.410
kKorean KYU
kMainlandTelegraph 0452
kMandarin kuī
kMatthews 3642
kMeyerWempe 1368e
kMojiJoho MJ007506
kMorohashi 01955
kNelson 0676
kPhonetic 710
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+19188+18.2.6
kRSUnicode 18.6
kSBGY 092.10
kSMSZD2003Index 58.10
kSMSZD2003Readings kuī粵gwai1
kTaiwanTelegraph 0452
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 302:067
kXHC1983 0662.010:kuī