U+8089 "肉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
肉
U+8089 "肉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a foundational logograph in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) scripts, meaning "flesh," "meat," or "muscle." It originates from ancient pictographs depicting a side of ribs or a cut of meat, and it appears frequently in compound characters, often as a radical (commonly written as ⺼) to signify body parts or animal products, such as in "肝" (liver) or "腸" (intestines). In modern usage, it is a common character in everyday vocabulary, from food items like "牛肉" (beef) to anatomical terms, and it carries cultural significance in East Asian cuisine, philosophy, and traditional medicine, embodying the concept of physical substance and organic life.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8089 |
| 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 | 肉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 肉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x82 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8089 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008089 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8089 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A6D7 |
| kCCCII | 215323 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4858 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4858 |
| kCangjie | OBO |
| kCantonese | juk6 |
| kCihaiT | 1088.201 |
| kCowles | 5249 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1424.040 |
| kDefinition | flesh; meat; Kangxi radical 130 |
| kEACC | 215323 |
| kFanqie | 如六 |
| kFenn | 615A |
| kFennIndex | 231.02 232.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4022.7 |
| kGB0 | 4066 |
| kGB1 | 4066 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1033a |
| kHangul | 육:0E |
| kHanYu | 52931.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | ròu(278) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 52931.010:ròu,rù |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⾁[U+2F81]:52931.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 3265 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1424.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 52931.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0973.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4862 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A6D7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4679 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FBE1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6B3F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4858 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8F22 |
| kJapanese | ニク ジク ジュウ ジュ ニュ しし にく |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:443 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHISHI |
| kJapaneseOn | NIKU JUU |
| kJis0 | 3889 |
| kKangXi | 0973.010 |
| kKorean | YUK YU |
| kLau | 3581 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5131 |
| kMandarin | ròu |
| kMatthews | 3153 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3931 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ020912 |
| kMorohashi | 29236 |
| kNelson | 3724 |
| kPhonetic | 1648 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3281+130.6.0 V+13967+130.6.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 130.0 |
| kSBGY | 456.22 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 548.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ròu粵juk6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5131 |
| kTang | *njiuk |
| kTGHZ2013 | 316.100:ròu |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 243:360 |
| kXHC1983 | 0970.080:ròu |