U+8191 "膑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8191 "膑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the kneecap or patella in human anatomy. Historically, it is also associated with an ancient punishment known as "bìn" (膑刑), which involved removing the kneecap, a practice recorded in early Chinese legal history. In modern usage, the character appears in terms related to medical conditions of the knee, such as patellar dislocation or fractures. Its structure combines the flesh or body radical (月) with a phonetic component (賓/宾), reflecting its physical meaning and pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8191
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	膑
HTML Hex Encoding	膑
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x86 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8191
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008191
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8191

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	27537D
kCangjie	BJOC
kCantonese	ban3
kDefinition	the kneecap
kEACC	27537D
kFourCornerCode	7328
kGB0	7587
kHanYu	32105.060
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32105.060
kIRGKangXi	0992.071
kIRG_GSource	G0-6B77
kTGH	2013:5767
kKangXi	0992.071
kMainlandTelegraph	9141
kMandarin	bìn
kRSUnicode	130.10
kSimplifiedVariant	"膑" U+8191 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	560.04
kTGHZ2013	024.160:bìn
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"膑" U+8191 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "臏" U+81CF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0075.140:bìn