U+81C8 "臈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

臈

U+81C8 "臈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character used in the writing systems of Chinese and Japanese, where it is classified under the radical for meat or flesh and has variant readings and meanings. Its primary definition relates to a type of dried or cured meat, particularly preserved offerings used in seasonal or year-end rituals, and it is sometimes associated with the term for the twelfth lunar month, known as "臈月" in Chinese. In Japanese, the character can appear in similar contexts, including the word "臈" (rō) meaning dried meat or a term for the end of the year, and it is also used in some Buddhist texts. This character is a historical variant of 臘, with the two often being interchangeable in classical literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+81C8
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	臈
HTML Hex Encoding	臈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x87 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x81C8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000081C8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u81c8

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	227A3D
kCNS1986	E-5624
kCNS1992	3-5624
kCangjie	BTAV
kCantonese	laap6
kCihaiT	1105.204
kDaeJaweon	1447.180
kDefinition	year end sacrifice; dried meat
kEACC	2D537E
kFanqie	盧盍
kFennIndex	284.06
kFourCornerCode	7422.7
kHanYu	32110.110
kHanyuPinyin	32110.110:là,gé
kIICore	CJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1447.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32110.110
kIRGKangXi	0996.160
kIRG_GSource	GE-4872
kIRG_HSource	H-A0C8
kIRG_JSource	J0-6745
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6BEF
kIRG_KSource	K2-562D
kIRG_TSource	T3-5624
kJapanese	ロウカツカチ
kJapaneseOn	ROU
kJis0	7137
kKangXi	0996.160
kLau	1783
kMandarin	là
kMatthews	3763
kMojiJoho	MJ021256 MJ021256:E0101 MJ021257:E0102 MJ021258:E0103
kMorohashi	29953:E0102
kPhonetic	662
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6288+130.4.12
kRSUnicode	130.13
kSBGY	536.61
kSemanticVariant	U+814A<kLau,kMatthews U+81D8<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	562.09
kTaiwanTelegraph	9077
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	HJ
kXerox	322:317
kXHC1983	0668.092:là