U+523E "刾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+523E "刾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or variant Chinese character that appears to be a graphical variant of the more common character "刺" (cì), which means "thorn," "splinter," "to stab," or "to irritate," and is also used in words like "刺杀" (assassination). While it is included in the CJK Unified Ideographs block as a legacy representation, its usage is extremely limited and primarily historical or typographical, often representing a non standard or alternate form found in certain older texts or regional scripts rather than a standard modern character.

General Properties

Code Point	U+523E
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	刾
HTML Hex Encoding	刾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x88 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x523E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000523E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u523e

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	333363
kCNS1986	E-644F
kCNS1992	3-644F
kCangjie	KTLN
kCantonese	ci3
kDefinition	stab; prick, irritate; prod
kEACC	4B576C
kHanYu	10333.041
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10333.041
kIRGKangXi	0139.251
kIRG_GSource	GE-3235
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-007519
kIRG_TSource	T3-644F
kJapanese	シ セキ さす
kKangXi	0139.251
kMandarin	cì
kMojiJoho	MJ007519
kPhonetic	550*
kRSUnicode	18.6
kSimplifiedVariant	"刾" U+523E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"㓨" U+34E8 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "刾" U+523E CJK Unified Ideograph-#