U+524E "剎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

剎

U+524E "剎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "brake" or "to stop," often used in contexts such as vehicles or machinery. It also carries a secondary meaning related to Buddhist terminology, where it can denote a "moment" or "instant," as in the word "剎那" (chànà), a transliteration of the Sanskrit term "kṣaṇa" for an extremely brief unit of time. Originating from the clerical script of ancient Chinese, this character is traditionally composed of the radical for "knife" on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its functional and historical use in both technical and philosophical expressions. Its usage spans modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean written forms, where it is recognized as a standard element in East Asian typography and text encoding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+524E
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	剎
HTML Hex Encoding	剎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x89 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x524E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000524E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u524e

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	AB62
kCNS1986	1-5026
kCNS1992	1-5026
kCangjie	KCLN
kCantonese	caat3
kCihaiT	183.504
kDefinition	temple
kFourCornerCode	4290.0
kGradeLevel	6
kHanYu	10342.051
kHanyuPinlu	shā(17) chà(14)
kHKGlyph	0354
kIICore	ATHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10342.051
kIRGKangXi	0140.291
kIRG_GSource	GE-3238
kIRG_HSource	HB1-AB62
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-007533
kIRG_TSource	T1-5026
kJapanese	セツサツセチ
kJapaneseKun	HATABASHIRA TERA KUNI
kJapaneseOn	SATSU SECHI
kKangXi	0140.291
kKorean	CHAL
kMandarin	shā
kMojiJoho	MJ007533
kMorohashi	02012
kPhonetic	46
kRSUnicode	18.7
kSBGY	490.25
kSimplifiedVariant	"刹" U+5239 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	60.12
kSMSZD2003Readings	chà粵caat3,saat3 shā粵saat3
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	HMT