U+5B8D "宍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
宍
U+5B8D "宍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an East Asian logogram traditionally used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing, though it is now considered archaic or rare in modern usage. It originally means "flesh" or "meat," serving as an early variant of the more common character 肉 (ròu in Mandarin, niku in Japanese), and it reflects the ancient pictographic representation of a piece of meat or animal tissue. In historical texts, it appears in compounds related to physical substance or body parts, and its structure combines the "roof" radical (宀) with inner strokes suggesting marrow or flesh.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5B8D |
| 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 | 宍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 宍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xAE 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5B8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005B8D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5b8d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 217E3A |
| kCNS1986 | E-255A |
| kCNS1992 | 3-255A |
| kCangjie | JYC |
| kCantonese | juk6 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0556.050 |
| kDefinition | flesh; meat; Kangxi radical 130 |
| kEACC | 2D5323 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3080.0 |
| kGB5 | 2986 |
| kHanYu | 20917.070 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0556.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20917.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0282.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-3D76 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3C35 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2D69 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-255A |
| kJapanese | ニク しし |
| kJapaneseKun | SHISHI |
| kJapaneseOn | NIKU |
| kJis0 | 2821 |
| kKangXi | 0282.180 |
| kMandarin | ròu |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010118 |
| kMorohashi | 07084 |
| kNelson | 1284 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2273+40.3.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 40.4 |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |