U+8165 "腥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
腥
U+8165 "腥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "raw meat" or "fishy smell" and is often used to describe the strong, unpleasant odor associated with raw seafood, blood, or animal products. In compound words, it appears in terms like "腥味" (xīngwèi, meaning fishy smell) and "血腥" (xuèxīng, meaning bloodshed or a smell of blood). The character is composed of the radical "⺼" (meat or flesh) on the left, indicating its association with animal matter, and the phonetic component "星" (xīng, meaning star) on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. This ideograph is widely used in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it carries similar connotations related to odor or the rawness of organic substances.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8165 |
| 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 | 腥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 腥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x85 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8165 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008165 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8165 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B87B |
| kCCCII | 21535F |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6624 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6624 |
| kCangjie | BAHM |
| kCantonese | sing1 |
| kCihaiT | 1100.203 |
| kCowles | 3620 3654 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1440.300 |
| kDefinition | raw meat; rank, strong-smelling |
| kEACC | 21535F |
| kFanqie | 桑經 蘇佞 |
| kFenn | 42F |
| kFennIndex | 184.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7621.4 |
| kGB0 | 4840 |
| kGB1 | 4840 |
| kGSR | 0812a' |
| kHangul | 성:0N |
| kHanYu | 32095.130 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xīng(11) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32095.130:xīng |
| kHKGlyph | 3324 |
| kIICore | AGTHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1440.300 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32095.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0988.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5048 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B87B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6729 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E2F7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6123 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6624 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-642A |
| kJapanese | セイ ショウ なまぐさい |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2970 |
| kJapaneseKun | NAMAGUSAI |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI SHOU |
| kJis0 | 7109 |
| kKangXi | 0988.170 |
| kKorean | SENG |
| kLau | 2721 2814 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5206 |
| kMandarin | xīng |
| kMatthews | 2775 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2569 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021140 |
| kMorohashi | 29678 |
| kNelson | 3794 |
| kPhonetic | 1206 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6260+130.4.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 130.9 |
| kSBGY | 195.06 431.49 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 558.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xīng粵sing1,seng1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5206 |
| kTang | seng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 408.080:xīng |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tanh |
| kXerox | 261:326 |
| kXHC1983 | 1288.020:xīng |