U+8B0C "謌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

謌

U+8B0C "謌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that historically functions as a variant form of the more common character 歌 (gē), meaning "song" or "to sing." It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block and is composed of the radical 言 (yán, meaning "speech" or "words") on the left, combined with the phonetic component 哥 (gē, meaning "elder brother") on the right. In classical Chinese texts, 謌 appears primarily in poetic or literary contexts as an alternative orthography for 歌, though it is not used in modern standard Mandarin, Japanese, or Korean writing systems. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that historical documents and specialized linguistic studies can represent this archaic glyph accurately in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8B0C
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	謌
HTML Hex Encoding	謌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAC 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8B0C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008B0C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8b0c

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	23336B
kCNS1986	E-564A
kCNS1992	3-564A
kCangjie	YRMRR
kCantonese	go1
kCihaiT	1253.502
kCowles	1730
kDaeJaweon	1639.130
kDefinition	song; sing, chant; praise
kEACC	23336B
kFanqie	古俄
kFennIndex	249.02
kFourCornerCode	0162.1
kGSR	0001r
kHangul	가:1N
kHanYu	64005.040
kIRGDaeJaweon	1639.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64005.040
kIRGKangXi	1174.280
kIRG_GSource	GE-4D25
kIRG_HSource	H-8FDE
kIRG_JSource	J0-6B68
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-76F7
kIRG_KSource	K1-572F
kIRG_TSource	T3-564A
kJapanese	カうたうたう
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	UTAU UTA
kJapaneseOn	KA
kJis0	7572
kKangXi	1174.280
kKarlgren	413
kKorean	KA
kLau	943
kMandarin	gē
kMatthews	3364
kMojiJoho	MJ024667
kMorohashi	35797
kPhonetic	643
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6699+149.7.10
kRSUnicode	149.10
kSBGY	159.02
kSemanticVariant	U+6B4C<kLau,kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"𬤐" U+2C910 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	654.10
kTaiwanTelegraph	6191
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	HJ
kXerox	322:121