U+5234 "刴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5234 "刴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to chop" or "to mince," often used in culinary contexts to describe cutting food into small pieces with a knife or cleaver. It belongs to the "knife" radical group, reflecting its association with cutting actions, and appears in written Chinese and other East Asian scripts within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block. This character is less common in modern simplified Chinese, but it remains in use in traditional texts and certain regional dialects, where it conveys a specific, forceful chopping motion distinct from other cutting characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5234
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	刴
HTML Hex Encoding	刴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x88 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5234
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005234
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5234

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	2D3366
kCNS1986	E-275E
kCNS1992	3-275E
kCangjie	NDLN
kCantonese	do2
kCihaiT	183.501
kDefinition	chop by pounding, mince, hash
kEACC	2D3366
kFanqie	都唾
kFenn	216aG
kFennIndex	531.02
kHanYu	10338.020
kHanyuPinyin	10338.020:duò
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10338.021
kIRGKangXi	0138.430
kIRG_GSource	GE-3233
kIRG_HSource	H-9EFA
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-007508
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-37CF
kIRG_KSource	K2-2465
kIRG_TSource	T3-275E
kJapanese	タ
kJapaneseKun	KIRU
kJapaneseOn	TA
kKangXi	0138.430
kKorean	THA
kMandarin	duò
kMeyerWempe	3177b
kMojiJoho	MJ007508
kMorohashi	01957
kPhonetic	1366
kRSUnicode	18.6
kSemanticVariant	U+5241<kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index	59.09
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXHC1983	0281.121:duò