U+8A87 "誇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
誇
U+8A87 "誇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese hanzi, also used in Japanese and Korean, that primarily conveys the meanings of "boast," "exaggerate," or "praise." Composed of the radical 言 (speech) on the left and 夸 (meaning "to boast" or "exaggerate") on the right, its structure reinforces the concept of expressing excessive self-praise or overstatement. In modern usage, it appears in words like 誇張 (exaggeration) in Chinese and 誇り (pride) in Japanese, where it can carry either a negative connotation of boasting or a positive one of justifiable pride. This character reflects the nuanced role of language in expressing both honor and vanity across East Asian cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8A87 |
| 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 | 誇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 誇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAA 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8A87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008A87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8a87 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B8D8 |
| kCCCII | 215861 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-665F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-665F |
| kCangjie | YRKMS |
| kCantonese | kwaa1 |
| kCihaiT | 1244.604 |
| kCowles | 2111 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1625.280 |
| kDefinition | exaggerate; brag, boast; flaunt |
| kEACC | 215861 |
| kFanqie | 苦瓜 |
| kFenn | 242C |
| kFennIndex | 264.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0462.7 |
| kGB1 | 3168 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0043b |
| kHangul | 과:0E |
| kHanYu | 63962.140 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63962.140:kuā,qù |
| kHKGlyph | 3788 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1625.280 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63962.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1161.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3F64 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B8D8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3858 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D3E8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4E23 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-665F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6731 |
| kJapanese | コ カ ケ ク ほこる ほこり |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | HOKORU HOKORI |
| kJapaneseOn | KO KA |
| kJis0 | 2456 |
| kKangXi | 1161.020 |
| kKarlgren | 438 |
| kKorean | KWA |
| kMandarin | kuā |
| kMatthews | 3530 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1352 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024488 |
| kMorohashi | 35474 |
| kNelson | 4354 |
| kPhonetic | 701 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1932+149.7.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.6 |
| kSBGY | 166.15 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5938<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "夸" U+5938 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 647.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kuā粵kwaa1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6122 |
| kTang | *kuɑ |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | khoa |
| kXerox | 256:370 |
| kXHC1983 | 0655.071:kuā |