U+820C "舌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

舌

U+820C "舌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram representing the concept of "tongue" in multiple East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is composed of two main radicals: the top radical 千 (a variant of 舌 itself) and the bottom radical 口, which means "mouth," visually depicting the organ as something that extends from or functions within the oral cavity. In classical Chinese etymology, the character is often used in compounds related to speech, taste, and licking, and it appears frequently in idioms like "唇枪舌剑" (lips like spears and tongue like swords) to describe sharp verbal exchanges. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, it has been standardized across digital systems to ensure consistent representation of this common character.

General Properties

Code Point	U+820C
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	舌
HTML Hex Encoding	舌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x88 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x820C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000820C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u820c

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	A6DE
kCCCII	215436
kCNS1986	1-485F
kCNS1992	1-485F
kCangjie	HJR
kCantonese	sit3
kCihaiT	1115.301
kCowles	3963
kDaeJaweon	1463.120
kDefinition	tongue; clapper of bell; Kangxi radical 135
kEACC	215436
kFanqie	下刮食列
kFenn	707C
kFennIndex	441.04
kFourCornerCode	2060.4
kGB0	4164
kGB1	4164
kGradeLevel	2
kGSR	0288a 0302f
kHangul	설:0E
kHanYu	52941.010
kHanyuPinlu	shé(59)
kHanyuPinyin	52941.010:shé,guā
kHDZRadBreak	⾆[U+2F86]:52941.010
kHKGlyph	3376
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1463.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	52941.010
kIRGKangXi	1006.220
kIRG_GSource	G0-4960
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A6DE
kIRG_JSource	J0-4065
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E2D6
kIRG_KSource	K0-605F
kIRG_TSource	T1-485F
kIRG_VSource	V1-6443
kJapanese	ゼツセツカツゲチゼチした
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:449
kJapaneseKun	SHITA
kJapaneseOn	ZETSU SETSU
kJis0	3269
kKangXi	1006.220
kKarlgren	434
kKorean	SEL
kLau	2846
kMainlandTelegraph	5286
kMandarin	shé
kMatthews	5705
kMeyerWempe	2743
kMojiJoho	MJ021343 MJ021343:E0102 MJ021344:E0103
kMorohashi	30277 30277:E0102
kNelson	3855
kPhonetic	736 1218
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2697+135.6.0 V+20198+30.3.3 V+20198+51.3.3 V+20198+135.6.0
kRSUnicode	135.0
kSBGY	490.45 497.46
kSMSZD2003Index	567.02 567.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	shé粵sit3
kTaiwanTelegraph	5286
kTGHZ2013	328.160:shé
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	thiệt
kXerox	252:175
kXHC1983	1011.010:shé