U+528F "劏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
劏
U+528F "劏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in written Cantonese and Classical Chinese, where it means to slaughter or to cut open, particularly referring to the butchering of animals for food. This character is composed of the radical for knife or sword, indicating an action involving cutting, and a phonetic component that contributes to its pronunciation, which is typically romanized as "tong1" in Cantonese or "tāng" in Mandarin. In modern usage, it appears in contexts related to food preparation, such as in phrases like "劏雞" (to slaughter a chicken) or "劏魚" (to gut a fish), and it carries a practical, everyday significance in culinary and butchery settings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+528F |
| 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 | 劏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 劏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8A 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x528F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000528F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u528f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | FWLN |
| kCantonese | tong1 |
| kCheungBauer | 018/13;FWLN;tong1 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 344.11 |
| kCowles | 4430 |
| kDefinition | to butcher |
| kHanYu | 10358.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10358.050:tāng |
| kIICore | BHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10358.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0144.501 |
| kIRG_GSource | GH-1206 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9BD3 |
| kKangXi | 0144.501 |
| kMandarin | tāng |
| kMeyerWempe | 3212 |
| kPseudoGB1 | 9204 |
| kRSUnicode | 18.13 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "㓥" U+34E5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HM |