U+8AC7 "談" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
談
U+8AC7 "談" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese, Japanese, and Korean logograph that primarily denotes the concept of conversation, discussion, or to talk. In modern usage, it appears frequently in words like "会談" (meeting or conference) and "対談" (dialogue), and its radical is 言 (speech), reflecting its core association with verbal communication. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a shared written form across East Asian languages such as Mandarin Chinese, where it is pronounced as "tán," and Japanese, where it is used as a kanji in both on'yomi and kun'yomi readings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8AC7 |
| 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 | 談 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 談 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAB 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8AC7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008AC7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8ac7 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BDCD |
| kCCCII | 215879 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6E76 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6E76 |
| kCangjie | YRFF |
| kCantonese | taam4 |
| kCihaiT | 1248.402 |
| kCowles | 4288 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1632.220 |
| kDefinition | talk; conversation; surname |
| kEACC | 215879 |
| kFanqie | 徒甘 |
| kFenn | 447B |
| kFennIndex | 495.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0968.9 |
| kGB1 | 4424 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0617l |
| kHangul | 담:0E |
| kHanYu | 63992.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | tán(693) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63992.070:tán |
| kHKGlyph | 3814 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1632.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63992.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1167.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4C38 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDCD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-434C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D5D5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5348 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6E76 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-673F |
| kJapanese | ダン タン かたる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KATARU |
| kJapaneseOn | DAN TAN |
| kJis0 | 3544 |
| kKangXi | 1167.110 |
| kKarlgren | 239 |
| kKorean | TAM |
| kLau | 2997 |
| kMandarin | tán |
| kMatthews | 6078 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2937 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024567 |
| kMorohashi | 35633 |
| kNelson | 4388 4432 |
| kPhonetic | 1568 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2954+149.7.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.8 |
| kSBGY | 223.28 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8B5A<kLau |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "谈" U+8C08 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 650.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | tán粵taam4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6151 |
| kTang | dhɑm |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | đàm |
| kXerox | 244:047 |