U+8AF5 "諵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8AF5 "諵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that is typically pronounced as "nán" or "nàn" in Mandarin. It combines the radical for "speech" (讠) with the phonetic component "南" (meaning south), and its primary meanings relate to mumbling, muttering, or speaking in a low, indistinct manner, often implying a lack of clarity or hesitancy in speech. This character appears in classical Chinese texts but is infrequently used in modern Chinese, and it can also be found in some Japanese and Korean contexts due to shared historical usage of Chinese characters. As a Unicode character, it is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, ensuring its representation across digital platforms for historical, literary, or linguistic purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8AF5
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	諵
HTML Hex Encoding	諵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAB 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8AF5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008AF5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8af5

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	EBA4
kCCCII	233350
kCNS1986	2-5A50
kCNS1992	2-5A50
kCangjie	YRJBJ
kCantonese	naam4
kCihaiT	1250.501
kCowles	2828
kDaeJaweon	1636.220
kDefinition	mutter
kEACC	233350
kFanqie	女咸 尼賺
kFourCornerCode	0462.7
kGB5	8252
kHanYu	63995.040
kHanyuPinyin	63995.040:nán,nàn
kIRGDaeJaweon	1636.220
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63995.040
kIRGKangXi	1171.140
kIRG_GSource	G5-7254
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EBA4
kIRG_JSource	J1-5E34
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-76C3
kIRG_KSource	K2-6122
kIRG_TSource	T2-5A50
kJapanese	ダン ナン のう
kJapaneseOn	NAN DAN NEN
kJis1	6220
kKangXi	1171.140
kLau	2247
kMandarin	nán
kMatthews	4621
kMeyerWempe	1938
kMojiJoho	MJ024634
kMorohashi	35738
kPhonetic	939
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19812+149.7.9
kRSUnicode	149.9
kSBGY	230.28 445.31
kSemanticVariant	U+5583<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kTaiwanTelegraph	6177
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	313:366