U+523F "刿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
刿
U+523F "刿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character, traditionally pronounced guì or kuì in Mandarin, that appears in classical texts and is defined as "to cut" or "to wound," often in the context of minor injuries or the act of slicing. It is a left-right radical character, composed of the "knife" radical (刂) on the right and a phonetic or semantic component on the left, and is most famously found in the idiom "刿目鉥心" (guì mù shù xīn), which describes a style of writing or speech so incisive that it "pierces the eyes and stirs the heart." While rare in modern everyday usage, it is used in literary and historical references, particularly in works from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+523F |
| 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 | 刿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 刿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x88 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x523F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000523F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u523f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276B79 |
| kCangjie | UNLN |
| kCantonese | gwai3 |
| kDefinition | to cut, injure, stab, stick on |
| kEACC | 276B79 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2220 |
| kGB0 | 5659 |
| kHanYu | 10334.080 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10334.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0139.251 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-585B |
| kTGH | 2013:3930 |
| kKangXi | 0139.251 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 8106 |
| kMandarin | guì |
| kRSUnicode | 18.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 60.07 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 125.020:guì |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "劌" U+528C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0420.130:guì |