U+8AB2 "課" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8AB2 "課" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in multiple East Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, where it primarily refers to a lesson, a class, a course, or a section of study, such as a textbook chapter. In Japanese, it appears in compounds like 授業 (jūgyō, meaning "class" or "lesson") and is also a counter for lessons, while in Chinese, it denotes a subject or a unit of instruction, such as in 课程 (kèchéng, "curriculum" or "course"). The character is composed of the radical 言 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 果 (fruit) on the right, reflecting its historical semantic link to recitation or examination. This character is also used in formal contexts for administrative divisions, like departments or sections, and appears in words for homework or taxation in some languages, demonstrating its broad functional range in East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+8AB2
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 課
HTML Hex Encoding 課
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAA 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8AB2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008AB2
C/C++/Java Escape \u8ab2

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

kBigFive BDD2
kCCCII 21587C
kCNS1986 1-6E7B
kCNS1992 1-6E7B
kCangjie YRWD
kCantonese fo3
kCihaiT 1247.303
kCowles 772
kDaeJaweon 1630.300
kDefinition lesson; course; classwork
kEACC 21587C
kFanqie 苦禾 苦卧
kFenn 507A
kFennIndex 254.05
kFourCornerCode 0669.4
kGB1 3146
kGradeLevel 1
kGSR 0351f
kHangul 과:0E
kHanYu 63985.140
kHanyuPinlu kè(341)
kHanyuPinyin 63985.140:kè
kHKGlyph 3818
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1630.300
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63985.140
kIRGKangXi 1165.140
kIRG_GSource G1-3F4E
kIRG_HSource HB1-BDD2
kIRG_JSource J0-325D
kIRG_KPSource KP0-D3E9
kIRG_KSource K0-4E24
kIRG_TSource T1-6E7B
kIRG_VSource V1-673C
kJapanese
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kJapaneseKun KOKOROMIRU
kJapaneseOn KA
kJis0 1861
kKangXi 1165.140
kKarlgren 479
kKorean KWA
kLau 709
kMandarin
kMatthews 3394
kMeyerWempe 521
kMojiJoho MJ024542
kMorohashi 35589
kNelson 4389
kPhonetic 744
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+1373+149.7.8
kRSUnicode 149.8
kSBGY 164.07 420.19
kSimplifiedVariant "课" U+8BFE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 649.10
kSMSZD2003Readings kè粵fo3
kTaiwanTelegraph 6143
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kVietnamese khoá
kXerox 242:136