U+8A84 "誄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
誄
U+8A84 "誄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily denotes a written eulogy or funerary address, specifically a text composed to mourn and praise the deceased, often recited or inscribed during ancient funeral rites. In classical Chinese literature, it appears in historical records and ritual texts, where it functioned as a formal genre of commemorative writing that extols the virtues and achievements of the departed. This character is composed of the radical for "speech" or "words" (言) on the left, and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its linguistic role in conveying solemn, memorial language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8A84 |
| 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 | 誄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 誄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAA 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8A84 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008A84 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8a84 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E04C |
| kCCCII | 23325D |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4752 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4752 |
| kCangjie | YRQD |
| kCantonese | loi6 |
| kCihaiT | 1244.602 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1625.250 |
| kDefinition | eulogize, praise the dead |
| kEACC | 23325D |
| kFenn | 498K |
| kFennIndex | 292.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0569.0 |
| kGB1 | 5819 |
| kGSR | 0578b |
| kHangul | 뢰:1N |
| kHanYu | 63960.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63960.100:lěi |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1625.250 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63960.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1160.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5A33 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E04C |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6B51 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7613 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5F30 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4752 |
| kIRG_VSource | V3-382F |
| kJapanese | ルイ しのびごと |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHINOBIGO |
| kJapaneseOn | RUI |
| kJis0 | 7549 |
| kKangXi | 1160.100 |
| kKarlgren | 519 |
| kKorean | LOY |
| kMandarin | lěi |
| kMatthews | 4242 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1646e |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024483 MJ024483:E0101 MJ024484:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 35471 35471:E0101 |
| kNelson | 4350 |
| kPhonetic | 830 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6676+149.7.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.6 |
| kSBGY | 249.18 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "诔" U+8BD4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 647.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lěi粵loi6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6120 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 277:110 |