U+8B02 "謂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8B02 "謂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to say," "to call," or "to be known as," and it is composed of the radical for speech or words on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its semantic connection to spoken language and naming. This character is widely used in classical and modern East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it appears in terms related to referring to something or someone, such as in the phrase "所謂" meaning "so-called" or "what is called." Its historical usage spans philosophical texts like the Analects of Confucius, where it conveys nuanced expressions of definition or attribution, and it remains a common element in formal writing and compound words across these languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B02
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 謂
HTML Hex Encoding 謂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAC 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B02
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B02
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b02

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 BFD7
kCCCII 21592D
kCNS1986 1-7241
kCNS1992 1-7241
kCangjie YRWB
kCantonese wai6
kCihaiT 1251.601
kCowles 5017
kDaeJaweon 1638.070
kDefinition say, tell; call, name; be called
kEACC 21592D
kFanqie 于貴
kFenn 617E
kFennIndex 601.03
kFourCornerCode 0662.7
kGB1 4629
kGradeLevel 6
kGSR 0523d
kHangul 위:0E
kHanYu 63997.060
kHanyuPinlu wèi(170)
kHanyuPinyin 63997.060:wèi
kHKGlyph 3836
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1638.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63997.060
kIRGKangXi 1173.120
kIRG_GSource G1-4E3D
kIRG_HSource HB1-BFD7
kIRG_JSource J0-3062
kIRG_KPSource KP0-FDD6
kIRG_KSource K0-6A5D
kIRG_TSource T1-7241
kJapanese イ いい いう おもう いえらく おもえらく
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kJapaneseKun IU OMOU II
kJapaneseOn I
kJis0 1666
kKangXi 1173.120
kKorean WI
kMandarin wèi
kMatthews 7079
kMeyerWempe 3744
kMojiJoho MJ024652
kMorohashi 35759
kNelson 4402
kPhonetic 1439
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+1190+149.7.9
kRSUnicode 149.9
kSBGY 359.04
kSimplifiedVariant "谓" U+8C13 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 653.06
kSMSZD2003Readings wèi粵wai6
kTaiwanTelegraph 6182
kTang *hiuə̀i
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kXerox 247:260