U+5235 "刵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
刵
U+5235 "刵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that historically refers to the ancient punishment of cutting off the ears, a form of corporal penalty in early Chinese legal codes. It is composed of the radical 刀 (knife or sword) on the right, indicating an action of cutting, and the phonetic component 耳 (ear) on the left, which also provides semantic context for the body part involved. This character appears in classical texts documenting legal and ritual practices, and while it is rarely used in modern Chinese, it remains a part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified character set, preserving a lexical link to historical forms of punishment.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5235 |
| 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 | 刵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 刵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x88 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5235 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005235 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5235 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CBD0 |
| kCCCII | 216B36 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2550 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2550 |
| kCangjie | SJLN |
| kCantonese | ji6 |
| kCihaiT | 183.503 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0315.090 |
| kDefinition | punishment by cutting off ears |
| kEACC | 216B36 |
| kFanqie | 仍吏 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1240.0 |
| kGB3 | 6437 |
| kGSR | 0981c |
| kHanYu | 10332.140 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10332.140:èr |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0315.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10332.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0139.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6045 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CBD0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-333C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-37D1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2466 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2550 |
| kJapanese | ジ ニ ゲイ みみきる |
| kJapaneseKun | MIMIKIRI |
| kJapaneseOn | JI NI GEI |
| kJis1 | 1928 |
| kKangXi | 0139.010 |
| kKarlgren | 11 |
| kKorean | I |
| kMandarin | èr |
| kMatthews | 1746 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007509 |
| kMorohashi | 01960 |
| kPhonetic | 1546 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19189+18.2.6 C+19189+128.6.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 18.6 |
| kSBGY | 357.30 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 59.02 545.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | èr粵ji6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0454 |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 302:070 |
| kXHC1983 | 0291.020:èr |