U+952F "锯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+952F "锯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "saw" as a noun, referring to the cutting tool with a toothed blade, and as a verb it means "to saw" or "to cut with a saw." This ideograph is composed of the radical 钅 (metal or gold) on the left, indicating its association with metal tools, and the phonetic component 居 (jū) on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation in Mandarin. Historically, it emerged from the need to represent a common implement used in woodworking and construction, and it retains that functional meaning in modern Chinese and occasionally in Japanese (where it is used in similar contexts, though often pronounced differently). The character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, which standardizes characters shared across these writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+952F
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 锯
HTML Hex Encoding 锯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x94 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x952F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000952F
C/C++/Java Escape \u952f

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 275D6D
kCangjie XCSJR
kCantonese geoi3
kDefinition a saw; to saw; amputate
kEACC 275D6D
kFourCornerCode 8776
kGB0 3066
kHanYu 64227.010
kHanyuPinlu jù(14)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64227.010
kIRGKangXi 1328.061
kIRG_GSource G0-3E62
kTGH 2013:2944
kKangXi 1328.061
kMainlandTelegraph 6920
kMandarin
kRSUnicode 167'.8
kTGHZ2013 186.100:jù
kTotalStrokes 13
kTraditionalVariant "鋸" U+92F8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0611.081:jū 0616.010:jù