U+65A9 "斩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+65A9 "斩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning to chop, cut, or behead, and it is composed of the radical 车 (vehicle, cart) on the left and the phonetic component 斤 (axe) on the right, though its traditional form, 斬, uses 車 (vehicle) and 斤. This character is commonly used in modern Chinese and Japanese (as 斬 or in simplified form 斩) to denote actions of severing or execution, appearing in words like 斩首 (decapitation) and 斩断 (to cut off). Its written history traces back to ancient Chinese scripts, where it symbolized the idea of using a sharp weapon to divide something, and it remains an integral part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block in Unicode, representing a standard character for digital text representation across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+65A9
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 斩
HTML Hex Encoding 斩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0x96 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x65A9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000065A9
C/C++/Java Escape \u65a9

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 274263
kCangjie KQHML
kCantonese zaam2
kDefinition cut, chop, sever; behead
kEACC 274263
kFourCornerCode 4252
kGB0 5322
kHanYu 32023.070
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 32023.070
kIRGKangXi 0479.111
kIRG_GSource G0-5536
kTGH 2013:1060
kKangXi 0479.111
kMainlandTelegraph 2447
kMandarin zhǎn
kPhonetic 21*
kRSUnicode 69.4
kTGHZ2013 465.010:zhǎn
kTotalStrokes 8
kTraditionalVariant "斬" U+65AC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1451.080:zhǎn