U+528E "劎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+528E "劎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese ideograph that represents a variant form of the character for "sword" or "blade," specifically related to the concept of a double-edged sword. This character is composed of radical components associated with metal and a phonetic element, and it appears in classical Chinese texts and historical dictionaries, though it is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital documents can accurately represent this obscure glyph for scholarly and historical purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+528E
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	劎
HTML Hex Encoding	劎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x8A 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x528E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000528E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u528e

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

kCNS1986	E-4B32
kCNS1992	3-4B32
kCangjie	OOSH
kCantonese	gim3
kDefinition	sword, dagger
kFenn	440D
kFennIndex	62.08
kHanYu	10357.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10357.040
kIRGKangXi	0144.501
kIRG_GSource	GE-3247
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-007607
kIRG_KSource	K2-2523
kIRG_MSource	MD-528E
kIRG_TSource	T3-4B32
kJapanese	ケン
kJapaneseKun	TSURUGI
kJapaneseOn	KEN
kKangXi	0144.501
kKorean	KEM
kMandarin	jiàn
kMojiJoho	MJ007607
kMorohashi	02229
kPhonetic	182*
kRSUnicode	18.13
kSemanticVariant	U+5294<kFenn
kSMSZD2003Index	64.13
kTotalStrokes	15