U+5242 "剂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
剂
U+5242 "剂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a noun meaning a dose, preparation, or pharmaceutical agent, derived from its radical "刂" (knife) and the phonetic component "齐." It is commonly used in modern Chinese to refer to medicinal concoctions, chemical formulations, or proportional mixtures, such as in the words "药剂" (medicinal dose) or "试剂" (reagent). As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, this character was encoded in Unicode 1.1 and is integral to writing systems across East Asia, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where its readings vary but retain the core concept of a measured or prepared substance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5242 |
| 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 | 剂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 剂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x89 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5242 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005242 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5242 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273423 |
| kCangjie | YLLN |
| kCantonese | zai1 |
| kDefinition | medicinal preparation |
| kEACC | 273423 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0220 |
| kGB0 | 2833 |
| kHanYu | 10336.140 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jì(79) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10336.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0139.251 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3C41 |
| kTGH | 2013:1216 |
| kKangXi | 0139.251 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0495 |
| kMandarin | jì |
| kPhonetic | 56 |
| kRSUnicode | 18.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 60.04 831.01 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 158.070:jì |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "劑" U+5291 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0532.030:jì |
| kStrange | I:U+5264 |