U+5202 "刂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5202 "刂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a radical and character component in the Chinese writing system, commonly known as the "knife" or "sword" radical, and it represents the meaning of cutting, slicing, or a blade. It is a simplified form of the full character "刀" (dāo) and appears primarily as a left-side component in compound characters, where it often modifies the meaning to involve actions or objects related to cutting, such as in "到" (dào, meaning to arrive, originally implying cutting through) and "别" (bié, meaning to separate). This ideograph is used across multiple East Asian scripts, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and it preserves a direct pictographic connection to an ancient knife shape, making it a key element in understanding the semantic structure of many written characters.