U+81BD "膽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
膽
U+81BD "膽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "gallbladder" or "gall," an organ in the body, and by extension conveys concepts of courage, bravery, or boldness, as the gallbladder was traditionally associated with valor in East Asian culture. It is composed of the radical for flesh or body (⺼) combined with a phonetic component, and it appears in classical texts, modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, often used in words like "膽量" (dǎnliàng, courage) or "肝膽相照" (gāndǎn xiāngzhào, complete sincerity).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+81BD |
| 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 | 膽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 膽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x86 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x81BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000081BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u81bd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C178 |
| kCCCII | 215379 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7524 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7524 |
| kCangjie | BNCR |
| kCantonese | daam2 |
| kCihaiT | 1104.404 |
| kCowles | 4038 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1446.340 |
| kDefinition | gall bladder; bravery, courage |
| kEACC | 215379 |
| kFanqie | 都敢 |
| kFenn | 741C |
| kFennIndex | 493.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7726.1 |
| kGB1 | 2108 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0619l |
| kHangul | 담:0N |
| kHanYu | 32117.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | dǎn(107) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32117.070:dǎn |
| kHKGlyph | 3350 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1446.340 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32117.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0995.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3528 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C178 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-673C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D5D2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5345 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7524 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6434 |
| kJapanese | タン きも |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KIMO |
| kJapaneseOn | TAN |
| kJis0 | 7128 |
| kKangXi | 0995.230 |
| kKorean | TAM |
| kLau | 456 |
| kMandarin | dǎn |
| kMatthews | 6047 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2931 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021243 |
| kMorohashi | 29933 |
| kNelson | 3751 3819 |
| kPhonetic | 179 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6279+130.4.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 130.13 |
| kSBGY | 332.43 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+80C6<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "胆" U+80C6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 561.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dǎn粵daam2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5237 |
| kTang | dɑ̌m |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | đảm |
| kXerox | 250:343 |
| kXHC1983 | 0210.081:dǎn |