U+524A "削" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
削
U+524A "削" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to pare," "to peel," "to cut," or "to reduce," and it is used in both modern and classical Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In Mandarin, it is pronounced xiāo when referring to the action of cutting or scraping, such as peeling fruit or sharpening a pencil, and xuē when used in compound words meaning to reduce, weaken, or eliminate, such as in the term 削減 (to cut down). The character is composed of a knife radical on the right and a phonetic component on the left, reflecting its connection to cutting actions. It appears in contexts ranging from everyday tasks to formal writing about budget cuts or military attrition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+524A |
| 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 | 削 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 削 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x89 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x524A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000524A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u524a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AB64 |
| kCCCII | 21336C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5028 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5028 |
| kCangjie | FBLN |
| kCantonese | soek3 |
| kCihaiT | 184.101 |
| kCowles | 3624 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0317.110 |
| kDefinition | scrape off, pare, trim |
| kEACC | 21336C |
| kFanqie | 息約 |
| kFenn | 124B |
| kFennIndex | 170.02 193.12 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9220.0 |
| kGB0 | 4787 |
| kGB1 | 4787 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kGSR | 1149c' |
| kHangul | 삭:0E |
| kHanYu | 10341.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xuē(194) xiāo(33) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10341.020:qiào,xiāo,shào |
| kHKGlyph | 0353 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0317.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10341.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0140.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F77 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AB64 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3A6F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E1A2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E7B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5028 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4D28 |
| kJapanese | サク シャク ショウ ソウ けずる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1475 |
| kJapaneseKun | KEZURU |
| kJapaneseOn | SAKU SHOU |
| kJis0 | 2679 |
| kKangXi | 0140.050 |
| kKorean | SAK |
| kLau | 2727 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0465 |
| kMandarin | xuē |
| kMatthews | 2785 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2572 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007528 MJ007528:E0102 MJ007527:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 02000:E0103 |
| kNelson | 0690 |
| kPhonetic | 220 1158 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2143+18.2.7 V+13789+18.2.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 18.7 |
| kSBGY | 503.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 60.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiāo粵soek3 xuē粵soek3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0465 |
| kTang | siɑk |
| kTGHZ2013 | 402.100:xiāo 416.030:xuē |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tước |
| kXerox | 254:361 |
| kXHC1983 | 1264.010:xiāo 1308.100:xuē |