U+80C1 "胁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+80C1 "胁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "rib" or "side of the body" and is also used to convey the concepts of "to coerce" or "to threaten." It is composed of the radical for flesh or body (月) on the left and a component indicating sound or form on the right, and it appears in modern Standard Mandarin as well as in classical texts. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages. In common usage, "胁" functions in words such as "威胁" (wēixié, meaning "threat") and "协" (xié, meaning "to cooperate"), where it may appear as a simplified form or variant.