U+8137 "脷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8137 "脷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "tongue" and is used in the context of anatomy, particularly referring to the tongue of an animal used as food, such as in Cantonese cuisine where it appears in dishes like braised ox tongue. Composed of the radical 月 (meat or flesh) and the phonetic component 利 (lì, meaning sharp or benefit), it is a simplified variant of the traditional character 脷, distinguished from the more common character 舌 (shé) for "tongue" in standard Mandarin, with its usage largely confined to certain regional dialects and culinary terminology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8137
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	脷
HTML Hex Encoding	脷
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x84 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8137
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008137
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8137

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

kCangjie	BHDN
kCantonese	lei6
kCheungBauer	130/07;BHDN;lei6
kCheungBauerIndex	451.11
kCowles	2294
kDefinition	(Cant.) tongue
kHanYu	32078.100
kHanyuPinyin	32078.100:lì
kIICore	BHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32078.100
kIRGKangXi	0985.111
kIRG_GSource	GH-1281
kIRG_HSource	H-9563
kKangXi	0985.111
kLau	1852
kMandarin	lì
kMeyerWempe	1525
kPhonetic	790*
kPseudoGB1	9241
kRSUnicode	130.7
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	HM