U+81A8 "膨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
膨
U+81A8 "膨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) primarily used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, as well as in Japanese and Korean, where it means "swell," "expand," or "bulge." It belongs to the radical 月 (meat/flesh) and typically conveys a sense of physical enlargement or inflation, as in swelling from injury, bloating, or expansion of volume. In compound words, it appears in terms like "膨胀" (péngzhàng) meaning "expansion" or "bloating," and is also used in Japanese on'yomi readings such as "ぼう" (bō). The character is encoded under the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, part of a comprehensive system that standardizes thousands of East Asian logographic characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+81A8 |
| 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 | 膨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 膨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x86 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x81A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000081A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u81a8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BFB1 |
| kCCCII | 215372 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7179 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7179 |
| kCangjie | BGTH |
| kCantonese | paang4 |
| kCihaiT | 1104.103 |
| kCowles | 3433 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1445.190 |
| kDefinition | to swell; swollen, bloated, inflated |
| kEACC | 215372 |
| kFanqie | 薄庚 蒲孟 |
| kFenn | 280H |
| kFennIndex | 398.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7222.2 |
| kGB0 | 3782 |
| kGB1 | 3782 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kHangul | 팽:0N |
| kHanYu | 32110.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | péng(44) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32110.050:pèng,péng |
| kHKGlyph | 3343 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1445.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32110.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0994.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4572 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BFB1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4B44 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F2AF |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7833 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7179 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6433 |
| kJapanese | ボウ ビョウ ホウ ふくらむ ふくれる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3364 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUKURAMU FUKURERU |
| kJapaneseOn | BOU HOU |
| kJis0 | 4336 |
| kKangXi | 0994.040 |
| kKorean | PHAYNG |
| kLau | 2451 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5191 |
| kMandarin | péng |
| kMatthews | 5062 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2243 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021218 |
| kMorohashi | 29861 |
| kNelson | 3818 |
| kPhonetic | 1007 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3698+130.4.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 130.12 |
| kSBGY | 184.60 430.20 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 561.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | péng粵paang4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9075 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 279.150:péng |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | bành |
| kXerox | 256:337 |
| kXHC1983 | 0863.100:péng |