U+516B "八" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
八
U+516B "八" CJK Unified Ideograph is a Chinese character that means "eight" and is used in various East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is composed of two simple strokes that diverge outward, symbolizing the concept of division or separation, which is thought to resemble the shape of two things moving apart. This character is part of the Kangxi radical set, where it serves as the 12th radical, and it appears frequently in compound characters and idiomatic expressions, such as in the phrase "八仙過海" meaning "the Eight Immortals crossing the sea."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+516B |
| 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 | 八 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 八 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x85 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x516B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000516B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u516b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A44B |
| kCCCII | 213324 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-442C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-442C |
| kCangjie | HO |
| kCantonese | baat3 |
| kCihaiT | 147.403 |
| kCowles | 3195 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0274.130 |
| kDefinition | eight; all around, all sides |
| kEACC | 213324 |
| kFanqie | 博拔 |
| kFenn | 392A |
| kFennIndex | 373.01 374.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8000.0 |
| kGB0 | 1643 |
| kGB1 | 1643 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0281a |
| kHangul | 팔:0E |
| kHanYu | 10241.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | bā(1123) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10241.030:bā |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⼋[U+2F0B]:10241.030 |
| kHKGlyph | 0282 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0274.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10241.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0126.260 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-304B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A44B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-482C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F1A5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7822 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-442C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4C47 |
| kJapanese | ハチ ハツ ハイ ハ や やつ やっつ よう |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:9 |
| kJapaneseKun | YATSU YATABI |
| kJapaneseOn | HACHI HATSU |
| kJis0 | 4012 |
| kKangXi | 0126.260 |
| kKorean | PHAL |
| kLau | 51 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0360 |
| kMandarin | bā |
| kMatthews | 4845 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2245 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007273 MJ007273:E0102 MJ007274:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 01450 01450:E0102 |
| kNelson | 0577 |
| kPhonetic | 1008 |
| kPrimaryNumeric | 8 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3392+12.2.0 V+20079+12.2.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 12.0 |
| kSBGY | 488.29 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+634C<kLau,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 47.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bā粵baat3 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+634C |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0360 |
| kTang | *bat bat |
| kTGHZ2013 | 006.010:bā |
| kTotalStrokes | 2 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | bát |
| kXerox | 241:252 |
| kXHC1983 | 0013.030:bā 0016.090:bá |