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

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.