U+526E "剮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
剮
U+526E "剮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that historically refers to a brutal form of execution by dismemberment, often translated as "cutting into pieces" or "lingchi," which was used as a capital punishment in ancient China. This character is composed of the radical for "knife" or "sword" (刂) on the right, indicating cutting or severing, and a phonetic or semantic component on the left that suggests division or separation. While largely obsolete in modern everyday use, it appears in classical texts, legal history, and discussions of ancient penal practices, carrying a strong connotation of extreme violence and torture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+526E |
| 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 | 剮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 剮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x89 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x526E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000526E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u526e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D46C |
| kCCCII | 216B5B |
| kCNS1986 | 2-336F |
| kCNS1992 | 2-336F |
| kCangjie | BBLN |
| kCantonese | gwaa2 |
| kCihaiT | 186.605 |
| kCowles | 4956 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0322.050 |
| kDefinition | cut, cut flesh from bones |
| kEACC | 216B5B |
| kFanqie | 古瓦 |
| kFenn | 581K |
| kFennIndex | 264.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7220.0 |
| kGB1 | 2548 |
| kHanYu | 10345.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10345.010:guǎ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0322.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10345.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0142.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3950 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D46C |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-3349 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-37F1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2476 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-336F |
| kJapanese | カ ケ |
| kJapaneseKun | SAKU |
| kJapaneseOn | KA KE |
| kJis1 | 1941 |
| kKangXi | 0142.200 |
| kKarlgren | 437 |
| kKorean | KWA |
| kMandarin | guǎ |
| kMatthews | 3508 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3692d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007565 |
| kMorohashi | 02094 |
| kPhonetic | 700 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19193+18.2.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 18.9 |
| kSBGY | 309.26 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "剐" U+5250 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 62.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | guǎ粵gwaa2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0478 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 276:315 |
| kXHC1983 | 0403.051:guǎ |