U+81E5 "臥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+81E5 "臥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to lie down" or "to recline," often conveying a sense of rest or horizontal positioning. Its structure combines the radical 臣 (minister) with 人 (person), though in simplified Chinese it is often replaced by the variant 卧. This character appears in classical and modern Chinese texts, including phrases like 臥薪嘗胆 (lying on brushwood and tasting gall) which symbolizes enduring hardship to achieve a goal. The character is also used in Japanese as a kanji with similar meanings, such as in words like 臥龍 (lying dragon), referencing a hidden talent. Its Unicode encoding allows for consistent digital representation across systems, preserving its role in East Asian written communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+81E5
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 臥
HTML Hex Encoding 臥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x87 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x81E5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000081E5
C/C++/Java Escape \u81e5

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive AAD7
kCCCII 215424
kCNS1986 1-4F3A
kCNS1992 1-4F3A
kCangjie SLO
kCantonese ngo6
kCihaiT 1106.302
kCowles 3067
kDaeJaweon 1450.070
kDefinition lie down; crouch
kEACC 215424
kFanqie 吾貨
kFenn 642B
kFennIndex 604.08
kFourCornerCode 7870.0
kGradeLevel 4
kGSR 0009a
kHangul 와:0E
kHanYu 42801.030
kHanyuPinlu wò(45)
kHanyuPinyin 42801.030:wò
kHKGlyph 3359
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1450.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42801.030
kIRGKangXi 0999.170
kIRG_GSource GE-4878
kIRG_HSource HB1-AAD7
kIRG_JSource J0-3269
kIRG_KPSource KP0-FDF2
kIRG_KSource K0-6842
kIRG_TSource T1-4F3A
kIRG_VSource V2-8F34
kJapanese ガ ふす
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kJapaneseKun FUSU
kJapaneseOn GA
kJis0 1873
kKangXi 0999.170
kKarlgren 1196
kKorean WA
kMandarin
kMatthews 7158
kMeyerWempe 2064
kMojiJoho MJ021289
kMorohashi 30071
kNelson 3839
kPhonetic 968
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+1385+9.2.7 C+1385+131.7.2
kRSUnicode 131.2
kSBGY 420.53
kSemanticVariant U+5367<kHKGlyph
kSMSZD2003Index 29.11 563.12
kTaiwanTelegraph 5257
kTang nguɑ̀
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kXerox 251:123
kXHC1983 1209.111:wò