U+81FC "臼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
臼
U+81FC "臼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing a mortar, a bowl shaped container traditionally used with a pestle for grinding or pounding grains, spices, or medicinal herbs. Its radical itself, also read as "臼", is one of the components in many other characters related to pressing, crushing, or receptacles, such as "稻" (rice paddy) and "舂" (to pound). In modern usage, it appears in the term "石臼" (stone mortar) and is also a surname in Chinese culture. The character's visual form depicts the shape of a mortar with a cross like pattern inside, reflecting its ancient pictographic origin.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+81FC |
| 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 | 臼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 臼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x87 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x81FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000081FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u81fc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A6DD |
| kCCCII | 21542D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-485E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-485E |
| kCangjie | HX |
| kCantonese | kau5 |
| kCihaiT | 1112.502 |
| kCowles | 1944 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1459.110 |
| kDefinition | mortar; bone joint socket; Kangzi radical 134 |
| kEACC | 21542D |
| kFanqie | 其九 居六 居玉 |
| kFenn | 680K |
| kFennIndex | 85.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7777.0 |
| kGB0 | 3042 |
| kGB1 | 3042 |
| kGSR | 1067a |
| kHangul | 구:0N |
| kHanYu | 53037.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53037.010:jiù |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⾅[U+2F85]:53037.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 3367 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1459.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53037.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1003.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3E4A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A6DD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3131 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D1A7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4F3F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-485E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-643D |
| kJapanese | キュウ グ ホウ ブ うす |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:462 |
| kJapaneseKun | USU |
| kJapaneseOn | KYUU |
| kJis0 | 1717 |
| kKangXi | 1003.010 |
| kKarlgren | 403 |
| kKorean | KWU |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5273 |
| kMandarin | jiù |
| kMatthews | 1202 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1088 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021316 |
| kMorohashi | 30173 |
| kNelson | 3849 |
| kPhonetic | 593 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1235+134.6.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 134.0 |
| kSBGY | 323.26 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 565.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiù粵kau5,kau3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5273 |
| kTang | ghiǒu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 182.140:jiù |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | cối |
| kXerox | 256:344 |
| kXHC1983 | 0609.010:jiù |