U+525F "剟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+525F "剟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily means to cut, slice, or pare away, often with the connotation of removing something in a careful or repetitive manner. It is composed of the knife radical 刂 on the right, indicating its association with cutting actions, and a phonetic component on the left that contributes to its pronunciation, which is typically read as "duō" in Mandarin. This character appears in classical Chinese texts and historical dictionaries, where it is used in contexts involving the gradual reduction or carving of materials, but it is not commonly employed in modern everyday writing. As a component of the Unicode standard, it ensures the digital preservation of this lesser known yet culturally significant ideograph for linguistic and historical research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+525F
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	剟
HTML Hex Encoding	剟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x89 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x525F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000525F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u525f

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	D0EA
kCCCII	216B50
kCNS1986	2-2E2D
kCNS1992	2-2E2D
kCangjie	EEEEN
kCantonese	zyut3
kCihaiT	186.402
kCowles	351
kDaeJaweon	0321.070
kDefinition	to prick; to cut blocks, to engrave
kEACC	216B50
kFanqie	丁括 陟劣
kFourCornerCode	8240.0
kGB3	1903
kGSR	0295g
kHangul	철:1N
kHanYu	10347.050
kHanyuPinyin	10347.050:duō,chì
kIRGDaeJaweon	0321.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10347.050
kIRGKangXi	0141.280
kIRG_GSource	G3-3323
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D0EA
kIRG_JSource	J1-3345
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-37ED
kIRG_KSource	K1-6F42
kIRG_TSource	T2-2E2D
kJapanese	タツ タチ テツ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:7092
kJapaneseKun	KEZURU SAKITORU SOGU UTSU
kJapaneseOn	TETSU TECHI TATSU TACHI
kJis1	1937
kKangXi	0141.280
kKorean	CHEL
kMandarin	duō
kMatthews	6435
kMeyerWempe	383a
kMojiJoho	MJ007549
kMorohashi	02055
kPhonetic	283
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21195+18.2.8
kRSUnicode	18.8
kSBGY	487.16 499.20
kSMSZD2003Index	62.04 85.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	duō粵zyut3
kTGHZ2013	084.090:duō
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXHC1983	0280.040:duō