U+81CD "臍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+81CD "臍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese Han character that primarily signifies the navel or belly button, often symbolizing the center of the body or a point of connection, as in the biological umbilical link between mother and child. In extended usage, it appears in compound words like "脐带" (umbilical cord) in medical contexts and carries metaphorical meanings of origin or core, such as in the term "脐点" (navel point) in geometry. This character is a standard component of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character set, where it is used with similar meanings across these languages, reflecting shared historical and cultural roots in East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+81CD
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
臍
HTML Hex Encoding
臍
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x87 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding
0x81CD
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000081CD
C/C++/Java Escape
\u81cd
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
C2C0
kCCCII
21537C
kCNS1986
1-772C
kCNS1992
1-772C
kCangjie
BYX
kCantonese
ci4
kCihaiT
1105.208
kCowles
4866
kDefinition
abdominal area of crab; navel
kEACC
21537C
kFanqie
徂奚
kFenn
421H
kFennIndex
39.02
kFourCornerCode
7022.3
kGB1
3874
kGSR
0593f
kHangul
제:0N
kHanYu
32121.050
kHanyuPinyin
32121.050:qí
kHKGlyph
3353
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
32121.050
kIRG_GSource
G1-466A
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C2C0
kIRG_JSource
J0-6741
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-EBF5
kIRG_KSource
K0-7030
kIRG_TSource
T1-772C
kJapanese
セイ サイ ザイ へそ ほぞ
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
HOZO HESO
kJapaneseOn
SEI SAI
kJis0
7133
kKangXi
0996.250
kKorean
CEY
kMandarin
qí
kMatthews
561
kMeyerWempe
3556
kMojiJoho
MJ021263
kMorohashi
29967
kNelson
3829
kPhonetic
56*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6284+130.4.14 C+6284+210.14.4 V+13588+130.4.14 V+13588+210.14.4
kRSUnicode
130.14
kSBGY
086.38
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
562.12
kSMSZD2003Readings
qí粵ci4
kTaiwanTelegraph
5247
kTang
dzhei
kTotalStrokes
18
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kXerox
264:374
kXHC1983
0895.031:qí