U+8B1B "講" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
講
U+8B1B "講" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "to speak," "to explain," "to lecture," or "to discuss." It is composed of the radical "言" (speech) on the left, indicating its connection to spoken language, and the phonetic component "冓" on the right. This character is used in both traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji, and it appears in compounds such as "講演" (lecture) and "講義" (course or lecture), emphasizing the act of teaching or formal discourse.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B1B |
| 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 | 講 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 講 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAC 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B1B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B1B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b1b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C1BF |
| kCCCII | 215934 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-754A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-754A |
| kCangjie | YRTTB |
| kCantonese | gong2 |
| kCihaiT | 1252.403 |
| kCowles | 1779 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1640.020 |
| kDefinition | explain; discuss; talk |
| kEACC | 215934 |
| kFanqie | 古項 |
| kFenn | 601B |
| kFennIndex | 45.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0565.7 |
| kGB1 | 2918 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 1198a |
| kHangul | 강:0E |
| kHanYu | 64004.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiǎng(974) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64004.020:jiǎng |
| kHKGlyph | 3842 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1640.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64004.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1175.240 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3D32 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C1BF |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3956 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CEBC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4B3B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-754A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6755 |
| kJapanese | コウ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KOU HAKARU HANASHIAU |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis0 | 2554 |
| kKangXi | 1175.240 |
| kKarlgren | 418 |
| kKorean | KANG |
| kLau | 968 |
| kMandarin | jiǎng |
| kMatthews | 645 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1244 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024694 MJ024694:E0102 MJ024693:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 35824:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4425 |
| kPhonetic | 589 658 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2024+149.7.10 V+13773+149.7.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.10 |
| kSBGY | 240.05 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "讲" U+8BB2 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 654.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiǎng粵gong2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6199 |
| kTang | gǎng |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | giảng |
| kXerox | 242:354 |
| kXHC1983 | 0561.011:jiǎng |