U+5280 "劀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5280 "劀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character used primarily in classical or historical texts, where it functions as a verb meaning to scrape, cut, or pare away, often in the context of removing flesh or trimming something with a knife. It belongs to the radical "刀" (knife) and is composed of that radical alongside the phonetic component "矞," reflecting its standard semantic-phonetic structure in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character set. While not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese, it may appear in specialized fields such as historical linguistics, classical literature, or lexicography, where its precise meaning and application are documented in dictionaries of ancient characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5280
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	劀
HTML Hex Encoding	劀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8A 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5280
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005280
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5280

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	E141
kCCCII	216B72
kCNS1986	2-4928
kCNS1992	2-4928
kCangjie	NBLN
kCantonese	gwaat3
kDaeJaweon	0324.210
kFanqie	古滑 古䫄
kFourCornerCode	1220.0
kGB5	2073
kGSR	0507k
kHanYu	10357.010
kHanyuPinyin	10357.010:guā
kIRGDaeJaweon	0324.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10357.010
kIRGKangXi	0143.460
kIRG_GSource	G5-3469
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E141
kIRG_JSource	J1-334D
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-380A
kIRG_KSource	K2-247B
kIRG_TSource	T2-4928
kJapanese	カツ ケツ
kJapaneseKun	KEZURU
kJapaneseOn	KATSU
kJis1	1945
kKangXi	0143.460
kKorean	KWAL
kMandarin	guā
kMojiJoho	MJ007591
kMorohashi	02180
kPhonetic	1450
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21196+18.2.12
kRSUnicode	18.12
kSBGY	489.05 490.38
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXHC1983	0403.030:guā