U+81D8 "臘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
臘
U+81D8 "臘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character historically associated with the twelfth lunar month, specifically the winter sacrificial rite known as the "La" festival, which honored ancestors and deities. It is composed of the radical for flesh or meat (月) on the left and a phonetic component on the right, and it commonly refers to cured or preserved meats, such as腊肉 (là ròu), a type of dried or smoked pork traditionally prepared during the cold season. In modern usage, the simplified form 腊 is often used in place of 臘, though the traditional character retains its cultural significance in classical texts and in certain regions like Taiwan and Hong Kong.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+81D8 |
| 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 | 臘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 臘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x87 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x81D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000081D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u81d8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C3BE |
| kCCCII | 21537E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7869 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7869 |
| kCangjie | BVVV |
| kCantonese | laap6 |
| kCihaiT | 1105.402 |
| kCowles | 2191 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1448.330 |
| kDefinition | year-end sacrifice; dried meat |
| kEACC | 21537E |
| kFanqie | 盧盍 |
| kFenn | 690F |
| kFennIndex | 284.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7221.7 |
| kGB1 | 3216 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kGSR | 0637j |
| kHangul | 납:0 랍:0N |
| kHanYu | 32123.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32123.060:là,liè |
| kHKGlyph | 3355 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1448.330 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32123.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0997.300 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4030 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C3BE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6744 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D7CE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5544 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7869 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6435 |
| kJapanese | ロウ リョウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseOn | ROU |
| kJis0 | 7136 |
| kKangXi | 0997.300 |
| kKarlgren | 550 |
| kKorean | LAP |
| kLau | 1783 |
| kMandarin | là |
| kMatthews | 3763 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1454 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021275 |
| kMorohashi | 30009 |
| kNelson | 3830 |
| kPhonetic | 813 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6287+130.4.15 |
| kRSUnicode | 130.15 |
| kSBGY | 536.60 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+814A<kLau,kMatthews U+81C8<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "腊" U+814A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 562.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | là粵laap6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5248 |
| kTang | lɑp |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | chạp |
| kXerox | 252:344 |
| kXHC1983 | 0668.091:là |