U+81A8 "膨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+81A8 "膨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) primarily used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, as well as in Japanese and Korean, where it means "swell," "expand," or "bulge." It belongs to the radical 月 (meat/flesh) and typically conveys a sense of physical enlargement or inflation, as in swelling from injury, bloating, or expansion of volume. In compound words, it appears in terms like "膨胀" (péngzhàng) meaning "expansion" or "bloating," and is also used in Japanese on'yomi readings such as "ぼう" (bō). The character is encoded under the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, part of a comprehensive system that standardizes thousands of East Asian logographic characters.
General Properties
Code Point
U+81A8
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
膨
HTML Hex Encoding
膨
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x86 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x81A8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000081A8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u81a8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
BFB1
kCCCII
215372
kCNS1986
1-7179
kCNS1992
1-7179
kCangjie
BGTH
kCantonese
paang4
kCihaiT
1104.103
kCowles
3433
kDaeJaweon
1445.190
kDefinition
to swell; swollen, bloated, inflated
kEACC
215372
kFanqie
薄庚 蒲孟
kFenn
280H
kFennIndex
398.03
kFourCornerCode
7222.2
kGB0
3782
kGB1
3782
kGradeLevel
4
kHangul
팽:0N
kHanYu
32110.050
kHanyuPinlu
péng(44)
kHanyuPinyin
32110.050:pèng,péng
kHKGlyph
3343
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
32110.050
kIRG_GSource
G0-4572
kIRG_HSource
HB1-BFB1
kIRG_JSource
J0-4B44
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F2AF
kIRG_KSource
K0-7833
kIRG_TSource
T1-7179
kIRG_VSource
V1-6433
kJapanese
ボウ ビョウ ホウ ふくらむ ふくれる
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3364
kJapaneseKun
FUKURAMU FUKURERU
kJapaneseOn
BOU HOU
kJis0
4336
kKangXi
0994.040
kKorean
PHAYNG
kLau
2451
kMainlandTelegraph
5191
kMandarin
péng
kMatthews
5062
kMeyerWempe
2243
kMojiJoho
MJ021218
kMorohashi
29861
kNelson
3818
kPhonetic
1007
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+3698+130.4.12
kRSUnicode
130.12
kSBGY
184.60 430.20
kSMSZD2003Index
561.02
kSMSZD2003Readings
péng粵paang4
kTaiwanTelegraph
9075
kTGHZ2013
279.150:péng
kTotalStrokes
16
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
bành
kXerox
256:337
kXHC1983
0863.100:péng