U+8AD9 "諙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8AD9 "諙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese Han character that historically carries meanings related to speech or words, often associated with deceit, cunning, or clever talk, though its exact semantic range is obscure and primarily attested in classical texts or historical dictionaries. This character belongs to the Kangxi radical 149 (言, meaning "speech") and contains 15 total strokes, reflecting its composition as a logograph in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified script system. In modern usage, it is largely obsolete and does not appear in contemporary standard Chinese, Japanese, or Korean vocabulary, making it an antiquated glyph that occasionally surfaces in academic or paleographic contexts. Its Unicode encoding ensures consistent digital representation across platforms, preserving this obscure ideograph for linguistic study and heritage documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+8AD9
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 諙
HTML Hex Encoding 諙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAB 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8AD9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008AD9
C/C++/Java Escape \u8ad9

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 E7E4
kCCCII 23333E
kCNS1986 2-544D
kCNS1992 2-544D
kCangjie YRHPA
kCantonese waa6
kDaeJaweon 1634.110
kFourCornerCode 0266.4
kHanYu 63990.030
kIRGDaeJaweon 1634.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63990.030
kIRGKangXi 1169.130
kIRG_GSource GE-4C7A
kIRG_HSource HB2-E7E4
kIRG_JSource JMJ-024591
kIRG_KSource K2-6079
kIRG_TSource T2-544D
kJapanese カイ ケ
kKangXi 1169.130
kMandarin huà
kMojiJoho MJ024591
kMorohashi 35672
kRSUnicode 149.8
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HMT