U+805D "聝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

聝

U+805D "聝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) primarily used in classical contexts, where it depicts the act of severing an enemy's left ear as a battle trophy in ancient warfare, a practice for counting kills and rewarding warriors. Structurally, it combines the radical for "ear" (耳) with the phonetic component " or "戈" (spear or dagger), visually linking the idea of the ear to combat. While considered a historical or literary character in modern Chinese, it occasionally appears in historical texts, names, or specialized discussions of ancient military customs, and it is represented in the Unicode standard to preserve its cultural and linguistic significance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+805D
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	聝
HTML Hex Encoding	聝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x81 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x805D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000805D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u805d

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	E3A2
kCCCII	227721
kCNS1986	2-4D29
kCNS1992	2-4D29
kCangjie	SJIRM
kCantonese	gwik1
kDaeJaweon	1418.060
kDefinition	to cut the left ears of the slain
kFanqie	古獲
kFourCornerCode	1345.0
kGB5	6349
kGSR	0929v
kHanYu	42790.130
kHanyuPinyin	42790.130:guó
kIRGDaeJaweon	1418.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42790.130
kIRGKangXi	0968.070
kIRG_GSource	G5-5F51
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E3A2
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-020854
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6A31
kIRG_KSource	K2-5464
kIRG_TSource	T2-4D29
kJapanese	カクみみきる
kKangXi	0968.070
kKarlgren	118
kMandarin	guó
kMatthews	3743
kMeyerWempe	1406e
kMojiJoho	MJ020854
kMorohashi	29100
kRSUnicode	128.8
kSBGY	513.34
kSemanticVariant	U+9998<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index	546.12
kTaiwanTelegraph	9042
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	313:144
kXHC1983	0426.051:guó