U+821A "舚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+821A "舚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that primarily means "to lick" or "to taste with the tongue," often associated with the action of an animal or person extending the tongue to sample or savor something. It belongs to the radical "舌" (tongue) and is composed of additional strokes that evoke the idea of extending or protruding, appearing in classical texts and poetry to describe delicate or tactile sensations of tasting. Though seldom used in modern Chinese, this glyph retains its historical connection to sensory perception and is recognized in Unicode’s extensive CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) repertoire for encoding traditional East Asian logographs.

General Properties

Code Point U+821A
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 舚
HTML Hex Encoding 舚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x88 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x821A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000821A
C/C++/Java Escape \u821a

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 227B26
kCNS1986 E-5A79
kCNS1992 3-5A79
kCangjie HRNCR
kCantonese daam1
kCihaiT 1116.408
kDaeJaweon 1465.070
kDefinition to put out the tongue
kFanqie 他兼 他念
kGB5 6679
kHanYu 52945.230
kHanyuPinyin 52945.230:tiàn
kIRGDaeJaweon 1465.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 52945.230
kIRGKangXi 1008.050
kIRG_GSource G5-626F
kIRG_HSource H-A0BA
kIRG_JSource J1-5673
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6C7A
kIRG_KSource K2-564D
kIRG_TSource T3-5A79
kJapanese テン
kJapaneseOn TEN
kJis1 5483
kKangXi 1008.050
kMandarin tiàn
kMatthews 6367
kMojiJoho MJ021364
kMorohashi 30333
kPhonetic 179*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+19726+135.6.13
kRSUnicode 135.13
kSBGY 228.36 444.24
kTotalStrokes 19
kUnihanCore2020 H