U+8AB0 "誰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
誰
U+8AB0 "誰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that translates to "who" in English, serving as an interrogative pronoun used to inquire about a person's identity. In Japanese, this kanji is also pronounced "dare" with the same meaning, and it is commonly employed in both written and spoken language to form questions. The character is composed of the radical for "speech" (言) combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its function in classical and modern contexts across East Asian languages that utilize Chinese characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8AB0 |
| 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 | 誰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 誰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAA 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8AB0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008AB0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8ab0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BDD6 |
| kCCCII | 215922 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6F21 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6F21 |
| kCangjie | YROG |
| kCantonese | seoi4 |
| kCihaiT | 1247.302 |
| kCowles | 4006 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1630.270 |
| kDefinition | who? whom? whose? anyone? |
| kEACC | 215922 |
| kFanqie | 視隹 |
| kFenn | 52A |
| kFennIndex | 442.08 467.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0061.4 |
| kGB1 | 4313 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0575u |
| kHangul | 수:0E |
| kHanYu | 63987.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shuí(1065) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63987.100:shuí,shéi |
| kHKGlyph | 3823 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1630.270 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63987.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1165.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4B2D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDD6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-432F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E4A8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6241 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6F21 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-9027 |
| kJapanese | スイ ズイ だれ たれ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | DARE |
| kJapaneseOn | SUI |
| kJis0 | 3515 |
| kKangXi | 1165.110 |
| kKorean | SWU |
| kLau | 2943 |
| kMandarin | shuí shéi |
| kMatthews | 5923 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2779 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024540 |
| kMorohashi | 35586 |
| kNelson | 4384 |
| kPhonetic | 285 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2925+149.7.8 C+2925+172.8.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.8 |
| kSBGY | 057.35 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "谁" U+8C01 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 649.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shuí,shéi粵seoi4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6142 |
| kTang | *zhui |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 243:335 |