U+81CA "臊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

臊
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+81CA "臊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes a strong, offensive smell, often associated with the odor of urine, sweat, or gamey meat, and it can also refer to shyness or embarrassment in certain contexts. This character is composed of the radical for meat or flesh (月) on the left, suggesting its link to bodily or animal scents, and it appears in both modern and classical Chinese texts. In usage, "臊" is commonly found in compound words such as "腥臊" meaning fishy or rank smell, or "害臊" meaning to be bashful or ashamed, reflecting its dual semantic range of literal odor and figurative discomfort.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+81CA
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
臊
HTML Hex Encoding
臊
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x87 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x81CA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000081CA
C/C++/Java Escape
\u81ca

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
EDEB
kCCCII
227A3A
kCNS1986
2-5E58
kCNS1992
2-5E58
kCangjie
BRRD
kCantonese
sou1
kCihaiT
1105.201
kCowles
3680
kDaeJaweon
1447.200
kDefinition
rancid; rank, fetid; bashful
kEACC
227A3A
kFanqie
蘇遭
kFenn
697F
kFennIndex
430.02 431.01
kFourCornerCode
7629.4
kGB0
7593
kGB1
7593
kGSR
1134e
kHangul
조:1N
kHanYu
32116.100
kHanyuPinyin
32116.100:sāo,sào
kIICore
BGT
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
32116.100
kIRG_GSource
G0-6B7D
kIRG_HSource
HB2-EDEB
kIRG_JSource
J13-7A55
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-6BF7
kIRG_KSource
K1-6D2E
kIRG_TSource
T2-5E58
kJapanese
ソウ なまぐさい
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3423
kJIS0213
1,90,53
kJapaneseKun
ABURA
kJapaneseOn
SOU
kJis1
5456
kKangXi
0996.180
kKorean
CO
kLau
2870 2871
kMainlandTelegraph
5246
kMandarin
sāo
kMatthews
5442
kMeyerWempe
2834
kMojiJoho
MJ021260
kMorohashi
29955
kPhonetic
230 1225A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+17058+130.4.13
kRSUnicode
130.13
kSBGY
157.06
kSemanticVariant
U+267A3<kHanYu:T
kSMSZD2003Index
562.06
kSMSZD2003Readings
sāo粵sou1 sào粵sou3
kTaiwanTelegraph
5246
kTang
sɑu
kTGHZ2013
321.040:sāo 321.100:sào
kTotalStrokes
17
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kXerox
271:145
kXHC1983
0988.010:sāo 0989.020:sào