U+8B19 "謙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
謙
U+8B19 "謙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese as a kanji and in Korean as a hanja, primarily meaning "modest," "humble," or "unassuming." It is composed of the radical for "speech" (讠/言) on the left, suggesting spoken attitude, and a phonetic component on the right that relates to "concurrent" or "joining," though its core semantic sense emphasizes personal restraint and respectfulness toward others. This character is central to virtues in East Asian Confucian philosophy, where humility is highly esteemed, and it is commonly used in words like "謙虚" (kyōyo in Japanese, qiānxū in Mandarin), meaning "humility" or "modesty."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B19 |
| 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 | 謙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 謙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAC 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b19 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C1BE |
| kCCCII | 215932 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7549 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7549 |
| kCangjie | YRTXC |
| kCantonese | him1 |
| kCihaiT | 1252.402 |
| kCowles | 1054 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1639.360 |
| kDefinition | humble, modest; hexagram ䷎ |
| kEACC | 215932 |
| kFanqie | 苦兼 |
| kFenn | 671C |
| kFennIndex | 63.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0863.7 |
| kGB1 | 3911 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0627f |
| kHangul | 겸:0E |
| kHanYu | 64009.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | qiān(26) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64009.020:qiān,zhàn |
| kHKGlyph | 3841 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1639.360 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64009.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1175.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-472B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C1BE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-382C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CFA9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4C45 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7549 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6754 |
| kJapanese | ケン へりくだる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | HERIKUDARU |
| kJapaneseOn | KEN |
| kJis0 | 2412 |
| kKangXi | 1175.200 |
| kKarlgren | 374 |
| kKorean | KYEM |
| kLau | 1171 |
| kMandarin | qiān |
| kMatthews | 885 |
| kMeyerWempe | 714 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024687 MJ024687:E0102 MJ024686:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 35821' 35821':E0102 35821:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4422 |
| kPhonetic | 615 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1888+149.7.10 V+13753+149.7.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.10 |
| kSBGY | 229.05 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "谦" U+8C26 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 654.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qiān粵him1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6197 |
| kTang | kem |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | khiêm |
| kXerox | 257:073 |