U+8ADC "諜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
諜
U+8ADC "諜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "spy" or "to spy," and it often appears in compound words related to espionage, such as "間諜" (jiàndié, meaning spy or intelligence agent) and "諜報" (diébào, meaning intelligence report). In classical Chinese, it also carries the sense of "to investigate" or "to gather secret information," and it is composed of the radical 言 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 葉 (leaf) on the right, reflecting its logographic structure. This character is used in both modern and historical contexts across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts, where it maintains similar meanings tied to covert operations and information gathering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8ADC |
| 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 | 諜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 諜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAB 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8ADC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008ADC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8adc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BFD2 |
| kCCCII | 21592A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-723C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-723C |
| kCangjie | YRPTD |
| kCantonese | dip6 |
| kCihaiT | 1249.607 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1635.090 |
| kDefinition | an intelligence report; to spy; spying |
| kEACC | 21592A |
| kFanqie | 徒協 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0469.4 |
| kGB1 | 2193 |
| kGSR | 0633j |
| kHangul | 첩:0N |
| kHanYu | 63994.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63994.070:dié,xiè |
| kHKGlyph | 3831 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1635.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63994.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1169.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-357D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BFD2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4435 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EDD5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7463 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-723C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6744 |
| kJapanese | チョウ ショウ うかがう |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | UKAGAU SHIMESU |
| kJapaneseOn | CHOU |
| kJis0 | 3621 |
| kKangXi | 1169.200 |
| kKarlgren | 225 |
| kKorean | CHEP |
| kMandarin | dié |
| kMatthews | 6322 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3112f |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024596 |
| kMorohashi | 35697 |
| kNelson | 4409 |
| kPhonetic | 1590 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3025+149.7.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.9 |
| kSBGY | 541.42 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "谍" U+8C0D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 651.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dié粵dip6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6183 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | điệp |
| kXerox | 254:106 |