U+81E9 "臩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+81E9 "臩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that historically carries meanings related to brightness, brilliance, or to illuminate, and it also appears in classical texts with connotations of being wide or expansive. In some contexts, it is used as a variant of the character "臦" (guàng) and can denote a state of being radiant or shining, though its usage is exceedingly uncommon in modern Chinese. The character is composed of the radical for flesh or body (月) combined with elements suggesting light or fire, emphasizing its thematic connection to luminosity. Due to its obscurity, it is primarily of interest to scholars studying ancient scripts or specialized lexicography.

General Properties

Code Point U+81E9
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 臩
HTML Hex Encoding 臩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x87 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x81E9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000081E9
C/C++/Java Escape \u81e9

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 EDEF
kCCCII 227A5C
kCNS1986 2-5E5C
kCNS1992 2-5E5C
kCangjie SSKLL
kCantonese gwong3
kDaeJaweon 1451.070
kFanqie 俱往 俱永
kFourCornerCode 1122.3
kHanYu 42803.010
kHanyuPinyin 42803.010:guǎng,jiǒng
kIRGDaeJaweon 1451.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42803.010
kIRGKangXi 1000.010
kIRG_GSource GE-487A
kIRG_HSource HB2-EDEF
kIRG_JSource JMJ-021295
kIRG_KSource K2-563B
kIRG_TSource T2-5E5C
kJapanese キョウ コウ ケイ
kKangXi 1000.010
kMandarin guǎng
kMojiJoho MJ021295
kMorohashi 30088
kRSUnicode 131.11
kSBGY 313.20 316.44
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kStrange Y