U+5244 "剄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5244 "剄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to cut the throat" or "to behead," often associated with the verb "jǐng" in Mandarin. It is composed of the radical 刀 (knife) on the right side, indicating a cutting action, and the phonetic component 巠 on the left. This character appears in classical Chinese texts and historical records, where it describes executions or violent actions, and it is also used in Japanese Kanji with a similar meaning. Its structure reflects the semantic and phonetic principles of character formation in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) script system.

General Properties

Code Point U+5244
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 剄
HTML Hex Encoding 剄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x89 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5244
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005244
C/C++/Java Escape \u5244

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

kBigFive CDF0
kCCCII 216B3E
kCNS1986 2-2932
kCNS1992 2-2932
kCangjie MMLN
kCantonese ging2
kCihaiT 185.501
kDaeJaweon 0317.050
kDefinition cut throat
kEACC 216B3E
kFanqie 古挺
kFourCornerCode 1210.0
kGB1 5657
kGSR 0831e
kHangul 경:1N
kHanYu 10340.030
kHanyuPinyin 10340.030:jǐng
kIICore CJ
kIRGDaeJaweon 0317.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10340.030
kIRGKangXi 0139.270
kIRG_GSource G1-5859
kIRG_HSource HB2-CDF0
kIRG_JSource J0-516D
kIRG_KPSource KP1-37D2
kIRG_KSource K1-584B
kIRG_TSource T2-2932
kJapanese ケイ キョウ くびきる
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun KUBIKIRU
kJapaneseOn KEI
kJis0 4977
kKangXi 0139.270
kKorean KYENG
kMandarin jǐng
kMatthews 1118
kMojiJoho MJ007521
kMorohashi 01990
kNelson 0687
kPhonetic 623
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4260+18.2.7
kRSUnicode 18.7
kSBGY 320.36
kSimplifiedVariant "刭" U+522D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 60.14
kSMSZD2003Readings jìng粵ging2
kTaiwanTelegraph 0462
kTotalStrokes 9
kUnihanCore2020 HJMT
kXerox 274:156
kXHC1983 0601.041:jǐng