U+8272 "色" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8272 "色" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental and highly versatile Chinese character with the primary meaning of "color" or "hue," though it also carries a wide range of secondary meanings including "appearance," "scene," "lust," or "quality." In East Asian languages, it is a key component in words describing colors such as "red color" and in terms for "look" or "manner," and it plays a central role in idioms and phrases related to visual beauty, sensuality, or emotional expression. Its radical is derived from a pictographic representation of a person or a form, and while its modern usage is most common in Chinese and Japanese, it also appears in Korean Hanja and historical Vietnamese texts, making it a deeply rooted symbol across the Sinosphere.

General Properties

Code Point U+8272
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 色
HTML Hex Encoding 色
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x89 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8272
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008272
C/C++/Java Escape \u8272

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 A6E2
kCCCII 21544F
kCNS1986 1-4863
kCNS1992 1-4863
kCangjie NAU
kCantonese sik1
kCihaiT 1120.101
kCowles 3917
kDaeJaweon 1473.040
kDefinition color, tint, hue, shade; form, body; beauty, desire for beauty; Kangxi radical 139
kEACC 21544F
kFanqie 所力
kFenn 313B
kFennIndex 431.05 433.11
kFourCornerCode 2771.7
kGB0 4111
kGB1 4111
kGradeLevel 1
kGSR 0927a
kHangul 색:0E
kHanYu 53071.010
kHanyuPinlu sè(950)
kHanyuPinyin 53071.010:sè,shǎi
kHDZRadBreak ⾊[U+2F8A]:53071.010
kHKGlyph 3401
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1473.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53071.010
kIRGKangXi 1014.020
kIRG_GSource G0-492B
kIRG_HSource HB1-A6E2
kIRG_JSource J0-3F27
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E5F4
kIRG_KSource K0-5F64
kIRG_TSource T1-4863
kIRG_VSource V1-6452
kJapanese ショク シキ いろ
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:509
kJapaneseKun IRO
kJapaneseOn SHOKU SHIKI
kJis0 3107
kKangXi 1014.020
kKorean SAYK
kLau 2780
kMainlandTelegraph 5331
kMandarin
kMatthews 5445
kMeyerWempe 2699
kMojiJoho MJ021470
kMorohashi 30602
kNelson 3889
kPhonetic 208 1188
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2541+139.6.0
kRSUnicode 139.0
kSBGY 526.31
kSMSZD2003Index 570.06
kSMSZD2003Readings sè粵sik1 shǎi粵sik1
kTaiwanTelegraph 5331
kTang *shriək
kTGHZ2013 321.110:sè 323.100:shǎi
kTotalStrokes 6
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese sắc
kXerox 243:112
kXHC1983 0989.120:sè 0994.110:shǎi