U+81CA "臊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
臊
U+81CA "臊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes a strong, offensive smell, often associated with the odor of urine, sweat, or gamey meat, and it can also refer to shyness or embarrassment in certain contexts. This character is composed of the radical for meat or flesh (月) on the left, suggesting its link to bodily or animal scents, and it appears in both modern and classical Chinese texts. In usage, "臊" is commonly found in compound words such as "腥臊" meaning fishy or rank smell, or "害臊" meaning to be bashful or ashamed, reflecting its dual semantic range of literal odor and figurative discomfort.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+81CA |
| 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 | 臊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 臊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x87 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x81CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000081CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u81ca |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EDEB |
| kCCCII | 227A3A |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5E58 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5E58 |
| kCangjie | BRRD |
| kCantonese | sou1 |
| kCihaiT | 1105.201 |
| kCowles | 3680 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1447.200 |
| kDefinition | rancid; rank, fetid; bashful |
| kEACC | 227A3A |
| kFanqie | 蘇遭 |
| kFenn | 697F |
| kFennIndex | 430.02 431.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7629.4 |
| kGB0 | 7593 |
| kGB1 | 7593 |
| kGSR | 1134e |
| kHangul | 조:1N |
| kHanYu | 32116.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32116.100:sāo,sào |
| kIICore | BGT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1447.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32116.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0996.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6B7D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EDEB |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7A55 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6BF7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6D2E |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5E58 |
| kJapanese | ソウ なまぐさい |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3423 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,90,53 |
| kJapaneseKun | ABURA |
| kJapaneseOn | SOU |
| kJis1 | 5456 |
| kKangXi | 0996.180 |
| kKorean | CO |
| kLau | 2870 2871 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5246 |
| kMandarin | sāo |
| kMatthews | 5442 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2834 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021260 |
| kMorohashi | 29955 |
| kPhonetic | 230 1225A |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17058+130.4.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 130.13 |
| kSBGY | 157.06 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+267A3<kHanYu:T |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 562.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sāo粵sou1 sào粵sou3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5246 |
| kTang | sɑu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 321.040:sāo 321.100:sào |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 271:145 |
| kXHC1983 | 0988.010:sāo 0989.020:sào |