U+82E6 "苦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
苦
U+82E6 "苦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of bitterness, hardship, or suffering. It is composed of the radical "艹" (grass) on top and the phonetic component "古" (old) below, and in classical and modern Chinese, it is used in words such as "痛苦" (pain) and "辛苦" (hard work) to convey physical or emotional distress, as well as in Buddhist contexts to denote the fundamental nature of suffering in life. This character is widely used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it carries similar meanings and forms part of various compounds related to difficulty or adversity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+82E6 |
| 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 | 苦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 苦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8B 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x82E6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000082E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u82e6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AD57 |
| kCCCII | 215465 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-533A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-533A |
| kCangjie | TJR |
| kCantonese | fu2 |
| kCihaiT | 1130.401 |
| kCowles | 813 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1482.130 |
| kDefinition | bitter; hardship, suffering |
| kEACC | 215465 |
| kFanqie | 康杜 苦故 |
| kFenn | 702B |
| kFennIndex | 262.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4460.4 |
| kGB0 | 3164 |
| kGB1 | 3164 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0049u |
| kHangul | 고:0E |
| kHanYu | 53186.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kǔ(645) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53186.020:kǔ,gǔ,hù |
| kHKGlyph | 3422 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1482.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53186.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1023.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F60 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AD57 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-366C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CFF2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4D48 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-533A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-646B |
| kJapanese | ク くるしい くるしむ くるしめる にがい にがる くるしみ はなはだ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:999 |
| kJapaneseKun | NIGAI KURUSHII KURUSHIMU |
| kJapaneseOn | KU |
| kJis0 | 2276 |
| kKangXi | 1023.160 |
| kKarlgren | 421 |
| kKorean | KO |
| kLau | 731 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5388 |
| kMandarin | kǔ |
| kMatthews | 3493 |
| kMeyerWempe | 546 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021681 MJ021681:E0101 MJ021682:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 30797' 30797':E0101 30797:E0102 |
| kNelson | 3928 |
| kPhonetic | 385 753 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1764+140.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.5 |
| kSBGY | 267.09 370.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 575.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kǔ粵fu2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5388 |
| kTang | *kǒ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 199.130:kǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | khổ |
| kXerox | 243:102 |
| kXHC1983 | 0653.090:kǔ |