U+81E8 "臨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
臨
U+81E8 "臨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to face," "to approach," "to attend to," or "to be present at" and is also used in the sense of "to come down from above" or "to oversee," as in the act of governing or inspecting. Its radical is the "臣" component in its traditional Japanese form, though in modern simplified Chinese it appears as "临" with a different composition. This character appears frequently in classical and modern East Asian texts, often in contexts involving imminent events, personal attendance, or hierarchical observation, such as in the word "臨時" meaning "temporary" or "provisional."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+81E8 |
| 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 | 臨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 臨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x87 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x81E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000081E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u81e8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C17B |
| kCCCII | 215425 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7527 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7527 |
| kCangjie | SLORR |
| kCantonese | lam4 |
| kCihaiT | 1106.501 |
| kCowles | 2224 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1451.060 |
| kDefinition | draw near, approach; descend; hexagram ䷒ |
| kEACC | 215425 |
| kFanqie | 力尋 良鴆 |
| kFenn | 695B |
| kFennIndex | 309.02 310.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7876.6 |
| kGB1 | 3357 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0669e |
| kHangul | 림:0E 임:0 |
| kHanYu | 42802.190 |
| kHanyuPinlu | lín(220) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42802.190:lín,lìn |
| kHKGlyph | 3361 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1451.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42802.190 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0999.240 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4159 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C17B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4E57 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D9F2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-577C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7527 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8F35 |
| kJapanese | リン のぞむ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | NOZOMU |
| kJapaneseOn | RIN |
| kJis0 | 4655 |
| kKangXi | 0999.240 |
| kKorean | LIM |
| kLau | 1806 |
| kMandarin | lín |
| kMatthews | 4027 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1479 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021294 MJ021294:E0101 MJ058409:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 30087 30087:E0101 |
| kNelson | 3840 |
| kPhonetic | 776A 1021 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3999+131.7.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 131.11 |
| kSBGY | 217.17 441.25 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "临" U+4E34 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 564.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lín粵lam4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5259 |
| kTang | *lim |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 245:305 |
| kXHC1983 | 0717.031:lín |