U+7825 "砥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+7825 "砥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese hanzi that primarily means "whetstone" or "grindstone," referring to a stone used for sharpening tools and knives. By extension, it carries metaphorical meanings of "to polish," "to refine," or "to temper," often used in classical and modern Chinese literature to describe the process of self-cultivation or the honing of skills through effort and perseverance. This character is composed of the radical for "stone" (石) and the phonetic component "氐," and it appears in various Chinese and Japanese texts, including idioms like "砥礪前行" (dǐ lì qián xíng), meaning to forge ahead with determination.
General Properties
Code Point
U+7825
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
砥
HTML Hex Encoding
砥
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE7 0xA0 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding
0x7825
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00007825
C/C++/Java Escape
\u7825
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
AFA1
kCCCII
214E35
kCNS1986
1-5724
kCNS1992
1-5724
kCangjie
MRHPM
kCantonese
dai2
kCihaiT
963.603
kDaeJaweon
1243.160
kDefinition
a whetstone; to polish
kEACC
214E35
kFanqie
旨夷 諸氏 職雉
kFenn
349K
kFennIndex
69.01
kFourCornerCode
1264.0
kGB0
7738
kGB1
7738
kGSR
0590o
kHangul
지:0N
kHanYu
42424.140
kHanyuPinyin
42424.140:dǐ,zhǐ
kHKGlyph
2813
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
42424.140
kIRG_GSource
G0-6D46
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AFA1
kIRG_JSource
J0-4556
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-EAE3
kIRG_KSource
K0-7232
kIRG_TSource
T1-5724
kIRG_VSource
V0-3F29
kJapanese
シ テイ タイ と といし
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:4480
kJapaneseKun
TO TOISHI
kJapaneseOn
SHI TEI
kJis0
3754
kKangXi
0828.370
kKorean
CI
kMainlandTelegraph
4272
kMandarin
dǐ
kMatthews
951
kMeyerWempe
2975d
kMojiJoho
MJ018456
kMorohashi
24093
kNelson
3184
kPhonetic
1307
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+3152+112.5.5
kRSUnicode
112.5
kSBGY
051.03 240.34 247.11
kSemanticVariant
U+538E<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
468.20
kSMSZD2003Readings
dǐ,zhǐ粵dai2
kTaiwanTelegraph
4272
kTGHZ2013
072.040:dǐ
kTotalStrokes
10
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
272:275
kXHC1983
0232.040:dǐ