U+523B "刻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
刻
U+523B "刻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to carve," "to engrave," or "to cut," and by extension denotes a moment in time, such as a quarter-hour or a specific period. It is composed of the radical 刂 (knife) on the right, indicating cutting or sharp action, and the phonetic component 亥 on the left. In classical and modern usage, this character appears in words like 刻字 (to carve characters), 深刻 (deep or profound), and 立刻 (immediately), reflecting its dual semantic range of physical incision and temporal precision.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+523B |
| 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 | 刻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 刻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x88 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x523B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000523B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u523b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A8E8 |
| kCCCII | 213360 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4C2B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4C2B |
| kCangjie | YOLN |
| kCantonese | hak1 |
| kCihaiT | 183.101 |
| kCowles | 922 972 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0316.050 |
| kDefinition | carve, engrave; quarter hour |
| kEACC | 213360 |
| kFanqie | 苦得 |
| kFenn | 874A |
| kFennIndex | 252.07 254.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0280.0 |
| kGB0 | 3144 |
| kGB1 | 3144 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0937v |
| kHangul | 각:0E |
| kHanYu | 10337.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kè(653) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10337.020:kè,kēi |
| kHKGlyph | 0340 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0316.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10337.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0139.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F4C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A8E8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-396F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDBD |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A3E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4C2B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4D26 |
| kJapanese | コク きざむ とき |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1224 |
| kJapaneseKun | KIZAMU KIZAMI TOKI |
| kJapaneseOn | KOKU |
| kJis0 | 2579 |
| kKangXi | 0139.140 |
| kKarlgren | 56 |
| kKorean | KAK |
| kLau | 1119 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0466 |
| kMandarin | kè |
| kMatthews | 3322 |
| kMeyerWempe | 626 659 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007516 MJ007516:E0101 MJ007517:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 01970 01970:E0101 |
| kNelson | 0681 |
| kPhonetic | 490 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2049+18.2.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 18.6 |
| kSBGY | 529.34 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 59.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kè粵hak1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0466 |
| kTang | kək |
| kTGHZ2013 | 196.080:kè |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | khắc |
| kXerox | 243:270 |
| kXHC1983 | 0641.040:kè |