U+8AA9 "誩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

誩

U+8AA9 "誩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that is composed of the radical for "speech" or "words" (言) repeated twice, forming a structure that visually represents two people speaking or arguing with each other. Its core meaning is often associated with "quarreling," "arguing," or "hot debate," reflecting the idea of a vocal dispute or a war of words. In classical Chinese texts, this character appears infrequently and is largely obsolete in modern usage, having been supplanted by more common characters that express similar concepts. As a result, it is primarily of interest to scholars of historical linguistics or specialists in ancient Chinese epigraphy, where its dual-speech structure provides insight into how the written language visually encoded social interactions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8AA9
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	誩
HTML Hex Encoding	誩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAA 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8AA9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008AA9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8aa9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	233268
kCNS1986	E-4965
kCNS1992	3-4965
kCangjie	YRYMR
kCantonese	ging6
kCihaiT	1246.401
kDaeJaweon	1629.130
kDefinition	to quarrel; to wrangle
kFanqie	其兩渠敬他紺
kFennIndex	81.06
kHanYu	63978.170
kHanyuPinyin	63978.170:jìng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1629.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63978.170
kIRGKangXi	1164.060
kIRG_GSource	GE-4C72
kIRG_HSource	H-8FE5
kIRG_JSource	J1-5D7B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7642
kIRG_TSource	T3-4965
kJapanese	ケイギョウキョウゴウタントン
kJapaneseKun	ARASOIIU
kJapaneseOn	KEI GYOU KYOU GOU TAN TON
kJis1	6191
kKangXi	1164.060
kKarlgren	234
kMandarin	jìng
kMatthews	1133
kMojiJoho	MJ024532
kMorohashi	35554
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22541+149.7.7
kRSUnicode	149.7
kSBGY	311.14 429.06 442.11
kSemanticVariant	U+7AF6<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	H