U+8B03 "謃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8B03 "謃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily appears in historical or literary contexts rather than in modern standard usage. Composed of the "speech" radical (言) on the left and a phonetic component on the right, its exact meaning is obscure and often debated, though it has been associated with concepts related to sound or speech in classical works. This character is not widely supported in common fonts and is typically encountered in specialized dictionaries or ancient texts, making it a point of interest for scholars of Chinese linguistics and paleography.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B03
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 謃
HTML Hex Encoding 謃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAC 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B03
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B03
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b03

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

kCCCII 233356
kCNS1986 E-664C
kCNS1992 3-664C
kCangjie YRAHM
kCantonese sing1
kEACC 233356
kHanYu 63997.031
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63997.031
kIRGKangXi 1174.121
kIRG_GSource GE-4D24
kIRG_TSource T3-664C
kKangXi 1174.121
kMandarin xīng
kRSUnicode 149.9
kTotalStrokes 16