U+8AAC "説" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
説
U+8AAC "説" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese and Korean writing, primarily meaning "to speak," "to explain," or "a theory." It is composed of the radical 言 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 兌 on the right, and it is used in words like 説明 (shuōmíng, explanation) in Mandarin Chinese and setsumei in Japanese. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a common logograph across East Asian languages with subtle variations in stroke order and form depending on the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8AAC |
| 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 | 説 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 説 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAA 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8AAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008AAC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8aac |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-4966 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-4966 |
| kCangjie | YRCRU |
| kCantonese | syut3 |
| kDefinition | speak |
| kFourCornerCode | 0861.6 |
| kGB1 | 4321 |
| kHanYu | 63979.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63979.030:shuō,shuì,yuè,tuō |
| kHKGlyph | 3799 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63979.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1165.051 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4B35 |
| kIRG_HSource | HD-8AAC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4062 |
| kIRG_MSource | MDH-8AAC |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-4966 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-673B |
| kJapanese | セツ ゼイ エツ タツ セイ とく よろこぶ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOKU YOROKOBU |
| kJapaneseOn | SETSU ZEI ETSU |
| kJis0 | 3266 |
| kKangXi | 1165.051 |
| kKorean | SEL SEY YEL |
| kMandarin | shuō |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024535 |
| kMorohashi | 35556' |
| kNelson | 4373 |
| kPhonetic | 1392 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2694+149.7.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.7 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "说" U+8BF4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 649.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shuō粵syut3 shuì粵seoi3 yuè粵jyut6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6141 |
| kTang | *shiuɛt shiuɛ̀i |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJ |
| kVietnamese | thuyết |
| kZVariant | U+8AAA |