U+8AFA "諺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8AFA "諺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "proverb" or "saying," and it is used across several East Asian languages including Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In Chinese, it often appears in the word "yànyǔ" (谚语) which translates to "proverb" or "adage," reflecting a traditional, concise wisdom passed down through generations. In Japanese, it is used similarly in "kotowaza" (諺) to denote a proverb, often appearing in literary and cultural contexts. The character is composed of the speech or word radical (言) on the left, which indicates its connection to language, and a phonetic component on the right that contributes to its pronunciation. Historically, this character has been employed in classical texts and folk literature to encapsulate moral lessons or observations about life, maintaining its relevance in modern writing as a symbol of collective cultural knowledge.

General Properties

Code Point U+8AFA
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 諺
HTML Hex Encoding 諺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAB 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8AFA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008AFA
C/C++/Java Escape \u8afa

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 BFCE
kCCCII 215926
kCNS1986 1-7238
kCNS1992 1-7238
kCangjie YRYHH
kCantonese jin6
kCihaiT 1251.301
kCowles 1365
kDaeJaweon 1637.060
kDefinition proverb, maxim
kEACC 215926
kFanqie 魚變
kFenn 284G
kFennIndex 628.05
kFourCornerCode 0062.2
kGB1 4972
kGSR 0199b
kHangul 언:0N
kHanYu 64001.020
kHanyuPinyin 64001.020:yàn
kHKGlyph 3827
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1637.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64001.020
kIRGKangXi 1172.090
kIRG_GSource G1-5168
kIRG_HSource HB1-BFCE
kIRG_JSource J0-3841
kIRG_KPSource KP0-F8BD
kIRG_KSource K0-656C
kIRG_TSource T1-7238
kIRG_VSource V1-674D
kJapanese ゲン ガン ことわざ
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun KOTOWAZA
kJapaneseOn GEN
kJis0 2433
kKangXi 1172.090
kKarlgren 240
kKorean EN AN
kLau 3477
kMandarin yàn
kMatthews 7374
kMeyerWempe 899b
kMojiJoho MJ024640 MJ024641:E0102 MJ024640:E0103
kMorohashi 35747 35747:E0103
kNelson 4403
kPhonetic 1580
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+1909+149.7.9 V+7678+149.7.9
kRSUnicode 149.9
kSBGY 409.30
kSimplifiedVariant "谚" U+8C1A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 653.01
kSMSZD2003Readings yàn粵jin6
kTaiwanTelegraph 6176
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kVietnamese ngạn
kXerox 271:176