U+8A57 "詗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
詗
U+8A57 "詗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that historically carries meanings related to spying, inquiring secretly, or obtaining information through covert means, often translated as "to spy" or "to snoop." This ideograph is composed of the radical for "speech" (訁/言) on the left and the phonetic component "冋" on the right, reflecting its semantic and phonetic structure within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified character set. While it appears in classical Chinese texts and is recognized in some modern dictionaries, "詗" is not commonly used in daily modern language, making it a notable but obscure glyph preserved in the Unicode standard for historical and linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8A57 |
| 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 | 詗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 詗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA9 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8A57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008A57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8a57 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DBDB |
| kCCCII | 233237 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4041 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4041 |
| kCangjie | YRBR |
| kCantonese | gwing2 |
| kCihaiT | 1241.402 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1621.030 |
| kDefinition | to spy; to give information; shrewd |
| kEACC | 233237 |
| kFanqie | 火迥 休正 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0762.0 |
| kGB3 | 8283 |
| kHangul | 형:1N |
| kHanYu | 63954.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63954.060:xiòng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1621.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63954.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1155.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-7273 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DBDB |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5D60 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-75FD |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-7362 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4041 |
| kJapanese | ケイ キョウ テイ チョウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SAGURU |
| kJapaneseOn | KYOU CHOU KEI |
| kJis1 | 6164 |
| kKangXi | 1155.120 |
| kKorean | HYENG |
| kMandarin | xiòng |
| kMatthews | 2817 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024432 |
| kMorohashi | 35386 |
| kPhonetic | 742 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19802+149.7.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.5 |
| kSBGY | 320.49 431.14 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "诇" U+8BC7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 645.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiòng粵hing3 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 306:342 |