U+8AEB "諫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

諫

U+8AEB "諫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji that primarily means "to admonish," "to remonstrate," or "to give earnest advice," often specifically referring to the act of respectfully and courageously offering counsel to a superior or ruler, acknowledging that such advice may be difficult or unwelcome. It is composed of the radical "言" (speech) on the left and the phonetic component "柬" (meaning "to select" or "letter") on the right, reflecting its core idea of conveying reasoned words. This character appears in classical Chinese texts, such as the historical work "Zuo Zhuan," where it is used to describe loyal ministers who dared to speak truthfully to power, and it retains similar connotations in modern literary and formal contexts across East Asian cultures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8AEB
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	諫
HTML Hex Encoding	諫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAB 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8AEB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008AEB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8aeb

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	BFCF
kCCCII	215927
kCNS1986	1-7239
kCNS1992	1-7239
kCangjie	YRDWF
kCantonese	gaan3
kCihaiT	1250.202
kCowles	1476
kDaeJaweon	1636.060
kDefinition	remonstrate, admonish
kEACC	215927
kFanqie	古晏
kFenn	505E
kFennIndex	62.11
kFourCornerCode	0569.6
kGB1	5841
kGSR	0185b
kHangul	간:0N
kHanYu	63995.090
kHanyuPinyin	63995.090:jiàn,làn
kHKGlyph	3832
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1636.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63995.090
kIRGKangXi	1170.170
kIRG_GSource	G1-5A49
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BFCF
kIRG_JSource	J0-6B5D
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-CDDF
kIRG_KSource	K0-4A5F
kIRG_TSource	T1-7239
kIRG_VSource	V1-6746
kJapanese	カンケンランいさめいさめる
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	ISAMERU ISAME
kJapaneseOn	KAN
kJis0	7561
kKangXi	1170.170
kKarlgren	372
kKorean	KAN
kMandarin	jiàn
kMatthews	847
kMeyerWempe	976
kMojiJoho	MJ024617
kMorohashi	35724
kNelson	4408
kPhonetic	549
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6688+149.7.9
kRSUnicode	149.9
kSBGY	404.54
kSimplifiedVariant	"谏" U+8C0F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	652.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	jiàn粵gaan3
kTaiwanTelegraph	6169
kTang	gàn
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	gián
kXerox	266:336