U+78D4 "磔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
磔
U+78D4 "磔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used in classical and literary contexts, historically meaning to dismember or split apart, often referring to an ancient form of execution known as death by dismemberment or quartering. In modern usage, it appears primarily in historical texts, linguistic studies, and calligraphy, and is also employed in Japanese as part of the Kanji system with a similar meaning related to tearing or rending. The character is composed of the stone radical (石) on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its semantic association with splitting or breaking hard surfaces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+78D4 |
| 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 | 磔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 磔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA3 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x78D4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000078D4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u78d4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E6C6 |
| kCCCII | 226560 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-524E |
| kCNS1992 | 2-524E |
| kCangjie | MRNQD |
| kCantonese | zaak6 |
| kCihaiT | 973.201 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1252.100 |
| kDefinition | to dismember, tear apart; downward stroke slanting right |
| kEACC | 226560 |
| kFanqie | 陟格 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1569.4 |
| kGB0 | 7761 |
| kGB1 | 7761 |
| kGSR | 0795j |
| kHangul | 책:1N |
| kHanYu | 42448.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42448.100:zhé |
| kIICore | BGJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1252.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42448.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0835.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6D5D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E6C6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6279 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-606D |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6E7C |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-524E |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-3F33 |
| kJapanese | タク チャク さく はりつけ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5895 |
| kJapaneseKun | SAKU HARITSUKE |
| kJapaneseOn | TAKU |
| kJis0 | 6689 |
| kKangXi | 0835.040 |
| kKorean | CHAYK |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4325 |
| kMandarin | zhé |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018635 MJ018635:E0102 MJ018634:E0103 MJ018636:E0104 MJ018637:E0105 |
| kMorohashi | 24406:E0103 |
| kNelson | 3215 |
| kPhonetic | 631 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5870+112.5.11 V+13570+112.5.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 112.10 |
| kSBGY | 510.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 475.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhé粵zaak6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4325 |
| kTang | djæk |
| kTGHZ2013 | 470.030:zhé |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kVietnamese | kẹt |
| kXerox | 300:135 |
| kXHC1983 | 1463.010:zhé |