U+81CF "臏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
臏
U+81CF "臏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used in classical and modern contexts, primarily referring to the kneecap or the kneecap bone, often associated with the ancient penalty of removing the kneecap known as "bìn" punishment. This character is composed of the radical for flesh or body part on the left, combined with a phonetic component on the right, and it appears in historical texts such as the "Records of the Grand Historian" when describing corporal punishments. While rare in everyday modern Chinese, it is still recognized in specialized medical or historical discussions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+81CF |
| 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 | 臏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 臏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x87 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x81CF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000081CF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u81cf |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2C1 |
| kCCCII | 21537D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-772D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-772D |
| kCangjie | BJMC |
| kCantonese | ban3 |
| kCihaiT | 1105.301 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1448.070 |
| kDefinition | the kneecap |
| kEACC | 21537D |
| kFanqie | 毗忍 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7328.6 |
| kGB1 | 7587 |
| kGSR | 0389r |
| kHangul | 빈:1N |
| kHanYu | 32121.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32121.110:bìn |
| kHKGlyph | 3354 |
| kIICore | ATH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1448.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32121.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0997.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6B77 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2C1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7A56 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6C06 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-633C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-772D |
| kJapanese | ヒン ビン あしきる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,90,54 |
| kJapaneseOn | HIN BIN |
| kJis1 | 5458 |
| kKangXi | 0997.020 |
| kKorean | PIN |
| kMandarin | bìn |
| kMatthews | 5268 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2274f |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021265 |
| kMorohashi | 29977 |
| kPhonetic | 1018 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+15034+130.4.14 |
| kRSUnicode | 130.14 |
| kSBGY | 276.14 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9AD5<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "膑" U+8191 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 562.14 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9078 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 306:047 |
| kXHC1983 | 0075.141:bìn |