U+525B "剛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
剛
U+525B "剛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "hard," "firm," or "strong," often used to describe unyielding toughness or rigidity. It combines the radical for a knife or sword on the right, suggesting cutting or sharpness, with a component on the left that historically hints at a net or constraint, though its overall meaning has evolved to convey strength and resoluteness. This character appears in various East Asian contexts, including Japanese and Korean, where it carries similar connotations of robustness and is frequently found in names, philosophical terms, and compound words like "gōki" (剛毅) meaning "fortitude."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+525B |
| 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 | 剛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 剛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x89 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x525B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000525B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u525b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ADE8 |
| kCCCII | 213370 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-544B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-544B |
| kCangjie | BULN |
| kCantonese | gong1 |
| kCihaiT | 186.103 |
| kCowles | 1772 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0320.170 |
| kDefinition | hard, tough, rigid, strong |
| kEACC | 213370 |
| kFanqie | 古郎 |
| kFenn | 592E |
| kFennIndex | 241.06 242.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7220.0 |
| kGB1 | 2453 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0697b |
| kHangul | 강:0E |
| kHanYu | 10344.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gāng(873) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10344.100:gāng |
| kHKGlyph | 0358 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0320.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10344.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0141.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3855 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ADE8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3964 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CEA8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4B27 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-544B |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8A51 |
| kJapanese | ゴウ こわい つよい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUYOI KOWAI |
| kJapaneseOn | GOU |
| kJis0 | 2568 |
| kKangXi | 0141.110 |
| kKarlgren | 304 |
| kKorean | KANG |
| kMandarin | gāng |
| kMatthews | 3268 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1239 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007545 |
| kMorohashi | 02042 |
| kNelson | 0114 |
| kPhonetic | 657 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2038+18.2.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 18.8 |
| kSBGY | 180.14 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+201DD<kKangXi:T |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "刚" U+521A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 61.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gāng粵gong1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0474 |
| kTang | gɑng |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 245:145 |
| kXHC1983 | 0360.071:gāng |