U+5287 "劇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
劇
U+5287 "劇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character also used in Japanese and Korean, meaning "drama," "play," "theater," or "intense." Its composition includes the radical "刀" (knife/sword) on the right, suggesting a sense of cutting or severity, while the left side contributes phonetic and semantic elements related to opposition or battle. This character commonly appears in words like "戲劇" (theater/drama) and "劇烈" (violent/intense) in Mandarin Chinese, and it retains similar meanings in Japanese, where it is used in terms such as "劇場" (theater) and "悲劇" (tragedy). As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it represents a written symbol shared across multiple East Asian languages with analogous semantic roots.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5287 |
| 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 | 劇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 劇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8A 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5287 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005287 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5287 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BC40 |
| kCCCII | 21337E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6C2A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6C2A |
| kCangjie | YOLN |
| kCantonese | kek6 |
| kCihaiT | 191.201 |
| kCowles | 1970 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0325.120 |
| kDefinition | theatrical plays, opera, drama |
| kEACC | 21337E |
| kFanqie | 奇逆 |
| kFenn | 290I |
| kFennIndex | 37.03 113.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2220.0 |
| kGB1 | 3071 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0803i |
| kHangul | 극:0E |
| kHanYu | 10358.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jù(123) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10358.030:jù |
| kHKGlyph | 0371 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0325.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10358.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0144.340 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3E67 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BC40 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3760 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D1E7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-503C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6C2A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4D35 |
| kJapanese | ゲキ ケキ はげしい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAGESHII |
| kJapaneseOn | GEKI KEKI GYAKU |
| kJis0 | 2364 |
| kKangXi | 0144.340 |
| kKarlgren | 489 |
| kKorean | KUK |
| kLau | 1689 |
| kMandarin | jù |
| kMatthews | 1593 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1140 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007599 |
| kMorohashi | 02218 |
| kNelson | 0247 |
| kPhonetic | 675 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1846+18.2.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 18.13 |
| kSBGY | 510.37 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "剧" U+5267 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 64.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jù粵kek6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0489 |
| kTang | *ghiæk |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | kịch |
| kXerox | 247:371 |
| kXHC1983 | 0615.091:jù |