U+527E "剾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+527E "剾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character composed of the radical for a knife or sword on the right and a phonetic component on the left, and it traditionally means to scrape or to pare away, often carrying a sense of removing something layer by layer with a sharp tool. This character belongs to the set of East Asian ideographs unified across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts, though its modern usage is extremely limited and largely confined to historical texts or specialized dictionaries. In contemporary standard Mandarin, it has largely fallen out of common vocabulary, but it remains a valid part of the Unicode standard to preserve the full range of classical Chinese written forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+527E
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 剾
HTML Hex Encoding 剾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x89 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x527E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000527E
C/C++/Java Escape \u527e

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

kCCCII 216B6C
kCNS1986 E-4040
kCNS1992 3-4040
kCangjie XXSRL
kCantonese kau1
kDefinition to pick up with knife
kFanqie 烏侯 恪侯
kFenn 696I
kFennIndex 256.08
kGB3 1884
kHanYu 10353.030
kHanyuPinyin 10353.030:kōu
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10353.030
kIRGKangXi 0143.360
kIRG_GSource G3-3274
kIRG_JSource JMJ-007588
kIRG_TSource T3-4040
kJapanese コウ ク オウ オ
kKangXi 0143.360
kMandarin kōu
kMatthews 3440
kMojiJoho MJ007588
kMorohashi 02163
kPhonetic 678*
kRSUnicode 18.11
kSBGY 213.08 214.09
kSimplifiedVariant "𠛅" U+206C5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 13