U+8138 "脸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8138 "脸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the human face, commonly used in modern Standard Chinese to denote the physical face or, in a more abstract sense, concepts of reputation, social standing, or "face" in the context of personal dignity and respect. Its composition includes the flesh radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its meaning and pronunciation. This character appears frequently in everyday language, from describing facial features to idiomatic expressions like "丢脸" (to lose face).

General Properties

Code Point	U+8138
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	脸
HTML Hex Encoding	脸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x84 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8138
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008138
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8138

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	27537A
kCangjie	BOMM
kCantonese	lim5
kDefinition	face; cheek; reputation
kEACC	27537A
kFourCornerCode	7821
kGB0	3319
kHanYu	32078.180
kHanyuPinlu	liǎn(930)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32078.180
kIRGKangXi	0985.111
kIRG_GSource	G0-4133
kTGH	2013:2359
kKangXi	0985.111
kMainlandTelegraph	5245
kMandarin	liǎn
kPhonetic	182*
kRSUnicode	130.7
kSMSZD2003Index	556.11
kTGHZ2013	219.180:liǎn
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"臉" U+81C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0704.100:liǎn