U+804B "聋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+804B "聋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "deaf" or "hard of hearing," used in both traditional and simplified forms of written Chinese. It is composed of a radical for "ear" on top and a phonetic component below, reflecting its semantic link to hearing loss. This character appears in words related to deafness, such as "聋子" meaning a deaf person, and it is also used in medical and metaphorical contexts, such as describing someone who is willfully ignorant or unresponsive. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it shares a common encoding for digital text across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+804B
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	聋
HTML Hex Encoding	聋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x81 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x804B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000804B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u804b

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

kCCCII	27527A
kCangjie	IPSJ
kCantonese	lung4
kDefinition	deaf
kEACC	27527A
kFourCornerCode	4340
kGB0	3391
kHanYu	42786.080
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42786.080
kIRGKangXi	0967.051
kIRG_GSource	G0-417B
kTGH	2013:2245
kKangXi	0967.051
kMainlandTelegraph	5122
kMandarin	lóng
kPhonetic	856*
kRSUnicode	128.5
kSMSZD2003Index	546.03
kTGHZ2013	230.090:lóng
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"聾" U+807E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0732.040:lóng