U+8656 "虖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8656 "虖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used traditional Chinese character that historically represents a tiger's roar or a cry of distress, and it is composed of the "tiger" radical (虍) combined with the phonetic component 乎 (hū). In classical Chinese texts, it often appears as an onomatopoeic word for a shout or a call, and it also functions as a variant or archaic form of the modern character 呼 (hū), meaning to exhale, shout, or summon. Its usage is largely confined to ancient literature, poetry, or specialized philological contexts, and it is not part of standard modern Chinese vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+8656
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 虖
HTML Hex Encoding 虖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x99 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8656
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008656
C/C++/Java Escape \u8656

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 D77C
kCCCII 232861
kCNS1986 2-3921
kCNS1992 2-3921
kCangjie YPHFD
kCantonese fu4
kCihaiT 1184.101
kDaeJaweon 1541.050
kDefinition to cry; to shout; to howl
kEACC 333573
kFanqie 況于 戶吳 荒烏
kFourCornerCode 2124.9
kGB5 6452
kGSR 0055e
kHanYu 42822.080
kHanyuPinyin 42822.080:hū,hú,hù
kIRGDaeJaweon 1541.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42822.080
kIRGKangXi 1074.010
kIRG_GSource G5-6054
kIRG_HSource HB2-D77C
kIRG_JSource J14-773A
kIRG_KPSource KP1-70D9
kIRG_KSource K2-5B2B
kIRG_TSource T2-3921
kIRG_VSource V2-8F5D
kJapanese ゴ コ ク ケイ キョウ
kJIS0213 2,87,26
kJapaneseKun HOERU
kJapaneseOn KO KU GO KEI KYOU
kJis1 5827
kKangXi 1074.010
kKarlgren 85
kMandarin
kMatthews 2156
kMojiJoho MJ023288
kMorohashi 32698
kPhonetic 379 389
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+18577+141.6.5
kRSUnicode 141.5
kSBGY 074.32 081.35 083.11
kTaiwanTelegraph 9132
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 306:173