U+65AD "断" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

断

U+65AD "断" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that generally means "to cut off," "to break," "to sever," or "to judge." It is composed of the radical 斤 (axe) on the left, suggesting cutting or chopping, and the right component 㫃, which relates to silk or continuity, reinforcing the idea of separation. This character is used in East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it appears in words like 判断 (pàn duàn, "judgment") or 切断 (qiē duàn, "cut off"). Its traditional form is 斷, which visually conveys breaking something into pieces, while the simplified form 断 follows modern Chinese orthography. The character is classified under the Kangxi radical 69 (斤) and carries significant semantic weight in contexts involving decision-making, interruption, or physical division.

General Properties

Code Point	U+65AD
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	断
HTML Hex Encoding	断
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x96 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x65AD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000065AD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u65ad

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	274266
kCNS1986	E-363A
kCNS1992	3-363A
kCangjie	VDHML
kCantonese	dyun6
kCihaiT	614.501
kDaeJaweon	0838.180
kDefinition	sever, cut off; interrupt
kEACC	274266
kFanqie	丁貫
kFennIndex	572.03
kFourCornerCode	2272.1
kGB0	2247
kHanYu	32025.030
kHanyuPinlu	duàn(681)
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0838.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32025.030
kIRGKangXi	0479.200
kIRG_GSource	G0-364F
kIRG_JSource	J0-4347
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-48A3
kIRG_KSource	K2-3832
kIRG_TSource	T3-363A
kIRG_VSource	V1-583B
kJapanese	ダンタンたつことわるさだめる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kTGH	2013:2405
kJapaneseKun	TATSU KOTOWARU SADAMERU
kJapaneseOn	DAN
kJis0	3539
kKangXi	0479.200
kKorean	TAN
kMainlandTelegraph	2451
kMandarin	duàn
kMojiJoho	MJ013083
kMorohashi	13557
kNelson	2078
kPhonetic	1388
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2949+69.4.7
kRSUnicode	69.7
kSemanticVariant	U+65B7<kFenn
kSimplifiedVariant	"断" U+65AD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	283.12
kTGHZ2013	082.040:duàn
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"断" U+65AD CJK Unified Ideograph-# "斷" U+65B7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GJ
kVietnamese	đoạn
kXHC1983	0271.010:duàn