U+8AA6 "誦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
誦
U+8AA6 "誦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that corresponds to the traditional form of the word "song" or "chant" in English, and it is a standard ideograph used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Specifically, it means to recite aloud, to chant, or to intone, often in the context of reading poetry or scripture. This character is composed of the radical for "speech" or "words" on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its linguistic function of vocal expression. Its appearance in Unicode encoding ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for documents and texts that require this ideograph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8AA6 |
| 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 | 誦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 誦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAA 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8AA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008AA6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8aa6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BB77 |
| kCCCII | 21586A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6B21 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6B21 |
| kCangjie | YRNIB |
| kCantonese | zung6 |
| kCihaiT | 1246.302 |
| kCowles | 4658 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1629.100 |
| kDefinition | recite, chant, repeat |
| kEACC | 21586A |
| kFanqie | 似用 |
| kFenn | 594G |
| kFennIndex | 479.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0762.7 |
| kGB1 | 4348 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 1185o |
| kHangul | 송:0E |
| kHanYu | 63980.120 |
| kHanyuPinlu | sòng(14) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63980.120:sòng |
| kHKGlyph | 3800 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1629.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63980.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1164.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4B50 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BB77 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6B56 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E3D6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6169 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6B21 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6739 |
| kJapanese | ショウ ジュ ズ となえる よむ |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | TONAERU YOMU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU JU |
| kJis0 | 7554 |
| kKangXi | 1164.020 |
| kKarlgren | 264 |
| kKorean | SONG |
| kMandarin | sòng |
| kMatthews | 5567 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3516 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024528 |
| kMorohashi | 35551 |
| kNelson | 4368 |
| kPhonetic | 1660 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6681+149.7.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.7 |
| kSBGY | 344.29 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "诵" U+8BF5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 649.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sòng粵zung6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6139 |
| kTang | ziòng |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tụng |
| kXerox | 257:364 |