U+75E8 "痨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+75E8 "痨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the sickness radical (疒) over the phonetic component 劳, and it specifically refers to tuberculosis or a chronic, wasting disease, most notably pulmonary tuberculosis, often historically called consumption. In modern Chinese, it is used in terms like 肺痨 (fèiláo) for tuberculosis and 痨病 (láobìng) for any such consumptive illness, carrying a clinical and historical weight as a term for a severe infectious disease that was once a major cause of death. The character itself belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is encoded for use in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where it represents both a specific medical condition and a broader concept of debilitating chronic illness.

General Properties

Code Point U+75E8
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 痨
HTML Hex Encoding 痨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x97 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x75E8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000075E8
C/C++/Java Escape \u75e8

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 274C6D
kCangjie KTBS
kCantonese lou4
kDefinition consumption; tuberculosis
kEACC 274C6D
kFourCornerCode 0012
kGB0 8076
kHanYu 42673.130
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42673.130
kIRGKangXi 0774.251
kIRG_GSource G0-706C
kTGH 2013:5254
kKangXi 0774.251
kMainlandTelegraph 4072
kMandarin láo
kPhonetic 821*
kRSUnicode 104.7
kSMSZD2003Index 447.08
kTGHZ2013 211.010:láo
kTotalStrokes 12
kTraditionalVariant "癆" U+7646 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0678.010:láo