U+5285 "劅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5285 "劅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that historically means to cut off, sever, or chop, often specifically referring to the punishment of castration or amputation in ancient legal and penal contexts. This character belongs to the knife radical (刂) and appears in classical texts such as the "Shuowen Jiezi," where it is defined as a form of punishment involving the removal of male genitalia. In modern usage, it is largely obsolete, preserved primarily in specialized historical or linguistic studies of ancient Chinese law and script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5285
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	劅
HTML Hex Encoding	劅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8A 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5285
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005285
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5285

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	236878
kCangjie	WILN
kCantonese	zoek3
kDaeJaweon	0325.090
kHanYu	10358.080
kIRGDaeJaweon	0325.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10358.080
kIRGKangXi	0144.280
kIRG_GSource	GE-3245
kIRG_JSource	J1-334F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3818
kIRG_KSource	K2-247D
kIRG_TSource	T4-4925
kJapanese	タク
kJapaneseOn	TAKU
kJis1	1947
kKangXi	0144.280
kMandarin	zhuó
kMojiJoho	MJ007597
kMorohashi	02212
kPhonetic	1264*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21197+18.2.13
kRSUnicode	18.13
kTotalStrokes	15