U+8ADC "諜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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