U+8AA0 "誠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
誠
U+8AA0 "誠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character, also used in Japanese and Korean, that primarily means "sincerity," "honesty," or "truthfulness." In Chinese, it is pronounced chéng, and in Japanese, it is often read as makoto or sei, carrying deep cultural significance in Confucian philosophy as a core virtue representing integrity and alignment between one's words and actions. This ideograph is constructed with the radical 言 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 成 (to become or achieve) on the right, visually linking the concept of honest expression to completion or fulfillment.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8AA0 |
| 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 | 誠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 誠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAA 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8AA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008AA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8aa0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B8DB |
| kCCCII | 215860 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6662 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6662 |
| kCangjie | YRIHS |
| kCantonese | sing4 |
| kCihaiT | 1246.201 |
| kCowles | 3951 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1628.060 |
| kDefinition | sincere, honest; true, real |
| kEACC | 215860 |
| kFanqie | 是征 |
| kFenn | 347B |
| kFennIndex | 29.11 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0365.0 |
| kGB1 | 1947 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0818h |
| kHangul | 성:0EN |
| kHanYu | 63963.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chéng(51) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63963.050:chéng |
| kHKGlyph | 3791 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1628.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63963.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1163.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-334F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B8DB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-403F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E2F8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6124 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6662 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6737 |
| kJapanese | セイ ジョウ まこと まことに |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | MAKOTO MAKOTONI |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI JOU |
| kJis0 | 3231 |
| kKangXi | 1163.120 |
| kKorean | SENG |
| kLau | 2830 |
| kMandarin | chéng |
| kMatthews | 381 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2732 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024517 MJ024517:E0102 MJ024518:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 35497' 35497':E0102 35537:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4352 4362 |
| kPhonetic | 1212 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2659+149.7.6 V+13871+149.7.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.6 |
| kSBGY | 191.30 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "诚" U+8BDA CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 648.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chéng粵sing4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6134 |
| kTang | *zhiɛng |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thành |
| kXerox | 247:102 |