U+8A4E "詎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8A4E "詎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily functions as an adverb or conjunction in classical and literary Chinese, often conveying meanings such as "how," "why," or "unexpectedly," and it can also express a rhetorical or negative interrogative tone. In modern usage, particularly in Cantonese, it is commonly employed as a particle to indicate a hypothetical or uncertain condition, similar to "if" or "should," though its frequency in everyday writing varies. The character is composed of the "speech" radical (言) on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its traditional classification as a phono-semantic compound. Historically, it appears in classical texts where it adds nuance to questions or suppositions, and its encoding in Unicode preserves this distinction for digital text processing across various East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+8A4E
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 詎
HTML Hex Encoding 詎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xA9 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8A4E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008A4E
C/C++/Java Escape \u8a4e

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 DBD6
kCCCII 23322A
kCNS1986 2-403C
kCNS1992 2-403C
kCangjie YRSS
kCantonese geoi6
kCihaiT 1241.106
kDaeJaweon 1620.180
kDefinition interjection used to express surprise
kEACC 23322A
kFanqie 其吕 其據
kFenn 641G
kFennIndex 114.11
kFourCornerCode 0161.7
kGB1 5810
kGSR 0095p
kHanYu 63945.010
kHanyuPinyin 63945.010:jù
kIICore CT
kIRGDaeJaweon 1620.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63945.010
kIRGKangXi 1154.160
kIRG_GSource G1-5A2A
kIRG_HSource HB2-DBD6
kIRG_JSource J13-7C24
kIRG_KPSource KP1-75D2
kIRG_KSource K2-6049
kIRG_TSource T2-403C
kJapanese キョ ゴ なに なにすれぞ なんぞ
kJIS0213 1,92,04
kJapaneseKun NANZO
kJapaneseOn KYO GO
kJis1 6161
kKangXi 1154.160
kKarlgren 482
kKorean KE
kMandarin
kMatthews 1552
kMeyerWempe 1311g
kMojiJoho MJ024421 MJ024421:E0101 MJ024422:E0102
kMorohashi 35370 35370:E0101
kPhonetic 676
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+15140+149.7.5
kRSUnicode 149.5
kSBGY 258.20 362.59
kSimplifiedVariant "讵" U+8BB5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 645.06
kSMSZD2003Readings jù粵geoi6
kTaiwanTelegraph 6093
kTang *ghiǔ
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 265:152