U+81CD "臍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
臍
U+81CD "臍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese Han character that primarily signifies the navel or belly button, often symbolizing the center of the body or a point of connection, as in the biological umbilical link between mother and child. In extended usage, it appears in compound words like "脐带" (umbilical cord) in medical contexts and carries metaphorical meanings of origin or core, such as in the term "脐点" (navel point) in geometry. This character is a standard component of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character set, where it is used with similar meanings across these languages, reflecting shared historical and cultural roots in East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+81CD |
| 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 | 臍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 臍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x87 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x81CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000081CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u81cd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2C0 |
| kCCCII | 21537C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-772C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-772C |
| kCangjie | BYX |
| kCantonese | ci4 |
| kCihaiT | 1105.208 |
| kCowles | 4866 |
| kDefinition | abdominal area of crab; navel |
| kEACC | 21537C |
| kFanqie | 徂奚 |
| kFenn | 421H |
| kFennIndex | 39.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7022.3 |
| kGB1 | 3874 |
| kGSR | 0593f |
| kHangul | 제:0N |
| kHanYu | 32121.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32121.050:qí |
| kHKGlyph | 3353 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32121.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0996.250 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-466A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2C0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6741 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EBF5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7030 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-772C |
| kJapanese | セイ サイ ザイ へそ ほぞ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | HOZO HESO |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI SAI |
| kJis0 | 7133 |
| kKangXi | 0996.250 |
| kKorean | CEY |
| kMandarin | qí |
| kMatthews | 561 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3556 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021263 |
| kMorohashi | 29967 |
| kNelson | 3829 |
| kPhonetic | 56* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6284+130.4.14 C+6284+210.14.4 V+13588+130.4.14 V+13588+210.14.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 130.14 |
| kSBGY | 086.38 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "脐" U+8110 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 562.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qí粵ci4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5247 |
| kTang | dzhei |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 264:374 |
| kXHC1983 | 0895.031:qí |