U+9ACF "髏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
髏
U+9ACF "髏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents the concept of "skull" or "skeleton," and it is more specifically used in the compound word "骷髏" (kūlóu), which refers to a human skull or a skeleton. This character is composed of the radical 骨 (bone) on the left, indicating its association with bones, and the phonetic component 婁 on the right. In historical and cultural contexts, it often appears in literary works and idioms to evoke themes of mortality, emptiness, or the macabre. Its encoding in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms for languages that use CJK characters, particularly Traditional Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9ACF |
| 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 | 髏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 髏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xAB 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9ACF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009ACF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9acf |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C55C |
| kCCCII | 216158 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7B48 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7B48 |
| kCangjie | BBLWV |
| kCantonese | lau4 |
| kCihaiT | 1513.408 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1977.210 |
| kDefinition | skull; skeleton |
| kEACC | 216158 |
| kFanqie | 落侯 |
| kFenn | 790E |
| kFennIndex | 317.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7524.4 |
| kGB1 | 8735 |
| kGSR | 0123n |
| kHangul | 루:1N |
| kHanYu | 74417.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74417.070:lóu |
| kHKGlyph | 4619 |
| kIICore | ATJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1977.210 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74417.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1450.440 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7743 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C55C |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-7170 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-8B01 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5F46 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7B48 |
| kJapanese | ロウ ロ ル |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseOn | ROU RU |
| kJis0 | 8180 |
| kKangXi | 1450.440 |
| kKorean | LWU |
| kMandarin | lóu |
| kMatthews | 4149 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1502d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028888 |
| kMorohashi | 45267 |
| kNelson | 5243 |
| kPhonetic | 780 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7271+188.10.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 188.11 |
| kSBGY | 213.28 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "髅" U+9AC5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 791.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lóu粵lau4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7551 |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 267:342 |
| kXHC1983 | 0734.041:lóu |