U+81B3 "膳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
膳
U+81B3 "膳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "meal" or "food," often with a connotation of a prepared or formal meal, such as in the word "膳食" (meal or cuisine) or "用膳" (to dine). Its composition includes the radical 月 (meat/flesh) on the left, indicating a connection to food, and the right component 善 (meaning good or virtuous), which provides phonetic and semantic hints. Historically used in contexts like imperial dining or ceremonial meals, it appears in Chinese, Japanese (as ぜん, zen, for meal or tray), and Korean (sometimes hanja) writing systems, reflecting a broad East Asian cultural emphasis on proper dining.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+81B3 |
| 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 | 膳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 膳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x86 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x81B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000081B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u81b3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BFAF |
| kCCCII | 215370 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7177 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7177 |
| kCangjie | BTGR |
| kCantonese | sin6 |
| kCihaiT | 1104.207 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1446.150 |
| kDefinition | meals, provisions, board |
| kEACC | 215370 |
| kFanqie | 時戰 |
| kFenn | 152G |
| kFennIndex | 436.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7826.5 |
| kGB0 | 4137 |
| kGB1 | 4137 |
| kGSR | 0205d |
| kHangul | 선:0N |
| kHanYu | 32113.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32113.110:shàn |
| kHKGlyph | 3341 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1446.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32113.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0995.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4945 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BFAF |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4137 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E2C5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-604E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7177 |
| kJapanese | ゼン セン |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6136 |
| kJapaneseKun | SUSUMERU SONAERU |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN ZEN |
| kJis0 | 3323 |
| kKangXi | 0995.010 |
| kKorean | SEN |
| kLau | 2810 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5234 |
| kMandarin | shàn |
| kMatthews | 5659 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2722 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021230 |
| kMorohashi | 29891 |
| kNelson | 3817 |
| kPhonetic | 1203 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2745+130.4.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 130.12 |
| kSBGY | 409.17 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+994D<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 561.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shàn粵sin6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5234 |
| kTang | zhiɛ̀n |
| kTGHZ2013 | 325.130:shàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 262:305 |
| kXHC1983 | 0999.050:shàn |