U+8043 "聃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
聃
U+8043 "聃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically associated with the name of Laozi, the ancient philosopher and founder of Taoism, whose personal name was Li Er and whose courtesy name was Dan (聃). It is composed of the radical for "ear" (耳) and a phonetic component, and its literal meaning often relates to long, large, or pendulous ears, a physical trait traditionally attributed to sages like Laozi. In classical Chinese texts and modern usage, it appears primarily as a name or a descriptive term, not commonly employed in everyday vocabulary, but it remains significant in sinological and cultural contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8043 |
| 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 | 聃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 聃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x81 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8043 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008043 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8043 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D743 |
| kCCCII | 227670 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3847 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3847 |
| kCangjie | SJGB |
| kCantonese | daam1 |
| kCihaiT | 1082.602 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1414.220 |
| kDefinition | ears without rims; a personal name |
| kEACC | 227670 |
| kFanqie | 他酣 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1544.7 |
| kGB0 | 8185 |
| kGB1 | 8185 |
| kGSR | 0622m |
| kHangul | 담:0N |
| kHanYu | 42786.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42786.110:dān |
| kIICore | AGKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1414.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42786.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0966.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7175 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D743 |
| kIRG_JSource | J4-752B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D5D1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5344 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3847 |
| kJapanese | タン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4745 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,85,11 |
| kKangXi | 0966.190 |
| kKorean | TAM |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5106 |
| kMandarin | dān |
| kMatthews | 6027 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ020829 |
| kMorohashi | 29039 |
| kPhonetic | 1570 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+18408+128.6.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 128.5 |
| kSBGY | 224.30 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+803C<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 546.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dān粵daam1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5106 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 064.130:dān |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHKMPT |
| kXerox | 300:255 |
| kXHC1983 | 0209.080:dān |