U+5250 "剐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
剐
U+5250 "剐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in modern Mandarin, pronounced "guǎ" in Pinyin. It most commonly refers to a historical method of execution known as "death by a thousand cuts" or lingchi, where the victim's body was sliced into small pieces, and figuratively it can mean to cut or pare something thinly, such as meat, or to suffer a prolonged, painful ordeal. In its literal sense, it retains the radical for "knife" (刂), reflecting its associations with cutting and dismemberment.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5250 |
| 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 | 剐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 剐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x89 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5250 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005250 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5250 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276B5B |
| kCangjie | RBLN |
| kCantonese | gwaa2 |
| kDefinition | cut, cut flesh from bones |
| kEACC | 276B5B |
| kFourCornerCode | 6220 |
| kGB0 | 2548 |
| kHanYu | 10342.020 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10342.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0140.291 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3950 |
| kTGH | 2013:4216 |
| kKangXi | 0140.291 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0478 |
| kMandarin | guǎ |
| kPhonetic | 700* |
| kRSUnicode | 18.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 61.08 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 120.040:guǎ |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "剮" U+526E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0403.050:guǎ |