U+81DC "臜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
臜
U+81DC "臜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in written Chinese, primarily in traditional and simplified forms, that conveys the meaning of "unclean" or "filthy" and is often associated with dirtiness or defilement in a physical or metaphorical sense. This character, pronounced "zā" in Mandarin, is a component of compound words like "腌臜" (ā zā), which means "dirty" or "disgusting," and it belongs to the radical "肉" (meat or flesh) reflecting its connection to bodily impurity. Historically, it has been utilized in classical literature and modern contexts to describe moral corruption or physical grime, though it is less common in everyday speech compared to more frequently used synonyms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+81DC |
| 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 | 臜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 臜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x87 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x81DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000081DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u81dc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 287A57 |
| kCangjie | BHUO |
| kCantonese | zim1 |
| kDefinition | dirty; filthy |
| kFourCornerCode | 7428.2 |
| kHanYu | 32124.080 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32124.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0998.141 |
| kIRG_GSource | G7-2127 |
| kTGH | 2013:6441 |
| kKangXi | 0998.141 |
| kMandarin | zā |
| kPhonetic | 28* |
| kRSUnicode | 130.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 563.02 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 456.050:zā |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "臢" U+81E2 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1435.050:zā |