U+528D "劍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+528D "劍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji character that represents a double edged sword or a broadsword, often associated with martial prowess, honor, and historical weaponry in East Asian cultures. It is composed of the radical for "knife" or "sword" on the right side and a phonetic component on the left, reflecting its structure as a pictophonetic character. This ideograph appears in classical texts, calligraphy, and modern usage primarily in contexts involving fencing, swordsmanship, or metaphorical expressions of decisiveness and cutting action. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encodes characters used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+528D
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 劍
HTML Hex Encoding 劍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x8A 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x528D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000528D
C/C++/Java Escape \u528d

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 BC43
kCCCII 213421
kCNS1986 1-6C2D
kCNS1992 1-6C2D
kCangjie OOLN
kCantonese gim3
kCihaiT 190.403
kCowles 1658
kDaeJaweon 0326.040
kDefinition sword, dagger, saber
kEACC 213421
kFanqie 居欠
kFourCornerCode 8280.0
kGB1 2903
kGradeLevel 3
kGSR 0613i
kHangul 검:0E
kHanYu 10358.100
kHanyuPinlu jiàn(79)
kHanyuPinyin 10358.100:jiàn
kHKGlyph 0373
kIICore ATHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0326.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10358.100
kIRGKangXi 0144.450
kIRG_GSource G1-3D23
kIRG_HSource HB1-BC43
kIRG_JSource J0-5178
kIRG_KPSource KP0-CEE3
kIRG_KSource K0-4B7C
kIRG_TSource T1-6C2D
kIRG_VSource V1-4D36
kJapanese ケン つるぎ
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010:U+5263
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kJapaneseKun TSURUGI
kJapaneseOn KEN
kJis0 4988
kKangXi 0144.450
kKorean KEM
kLau 906
kMandarin jiàn
kMatthews 849
kMeyerWempe 1144
kMojiJoho MJ007606
kMorohashi 02228
kNelson 0708
kPhonetic 182
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4271+18.2.13 V+14106+18.2.13
kRSUnicode 18.13
kSemanticVariant U+5292<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant "剑" U+5251 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 64.08
kSMSZD2003Readings jiàn粵gim3
kTaiwanTelegraph 0494
kTang *gi(u)æ̀m
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kVietnamese kiếm
kXerox 251:054
kXHC1983 0557.021:jiàn