U+8056 "聖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

聖

U+8056 "聖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that conveys the meaning of "holy," "sacred," or "sage," and is widely used in East Asian languages including Japanese and Korean. It is composed of the radical "耳" (ear) on the left and "呈" (to present) on the right, suggesting the ancient concept of a wise person who hears and communicates profound truths. Historically, this character appears in Confucian and religious contexts, such as in the term "聖人" (shèngrén in Chinese) meaning "sage" or "saint," and it is also a key element in the name of the Japanese tea ceremony master Sen no Rikyū's given name. In modern usage, it continues to carry strong connotations of moral excellence and spiritual authority across cultures that use Chinese characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8056
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	聖
HTML Hex Encoding	聖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x81 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8056
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008056
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8056

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	B874
kCCCII	21526F
kCNS1986	1-657B
kCNS1992	1-657B
kCangjie	SRHG
kCantonese	sing3
kCihaiT	1082.606
kCowles	3945
kDaeJaweon	1415.280
kDefinition	holy, sacred; sage
kEACC	21526F
kFanqie	式正
kFenn	71B
kFennIndex	447.08 448.01
kFourCornerCode	1610.4
kGB1	4205
kGradeLevel	3
kGSR	0835z
kHangul	성:0EN
kHanYu	42789.060
kHanyuPinlu	shèng(28)
kHanyuPinyin	42789.060:shèng
kHKGlyph	3247
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1415.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42789.060
kIRGKangXi	0967.220
kIRG_GSource	G1-4A25
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B874
kIRG_JSource	J0-403B
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E2F5
kIRG_KSource	K0-6121
kIRG_TSource	T1-657B
kIRG_VSource	V1-635E
kJapanese	セイショウセントひじり
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	HIJIRI
kJapaneseOn	SEI SHOU
kJis0	3227
kKangXi	0967.220
kKorean	SENG
kLau	2827
kMandarin	shèng
kMatthews	5753
kMeyerWempe	2728
kMojiJoho	MJ020846 MJ020846:E0102 MJ020845:E0103 MJ020847:E0104
kMorohashi	29074' 29074':E0102 29074:E0103
kNelson	2960
kPhonetic	204 1207
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2655+96.4.9 C+2655+128.6.7 V+13869+128.6.7
kRSUnicode	128.7
kSBGY	430.40
kSemanticVariant	U+5723<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant	"圣" U+5723 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	546.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	shèng粵sing3
kTaiwanTelegraph	5110
kTang	*shiɛ̀ng
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	thánh
kXerox	246:315
kXHC1983	1031.011:shèng