U+8B20 "謠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8B20 "謠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "rumor," "gossip," or "ballad," and it is composed of the radical for "speech" (言) combined with the phonetic component "謠" itself, often used in contexts involving unverified information or folk songs. In traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji usage, it appears in words like "謠言" (yáoyán) meaning "rumor" or "謠曲" (yōkyoku) referring to Noh theater songs, although in simplified Chinese it is represented by the character "谣". Its structure reflects the blending of spoken language with creative or deceptive narratives, making it significant in texts about communication, folklore, and social misinformation.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B20
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 謠
HTML Hex Encoding 謠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAC 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B20
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B20
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b20

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 C1C1
kCCCII 215936
kCNS1986 1-754C
kCNS1992 1-754C
kCangjie YRBOU
kCantonese jiu4
kCihaiT 1253.403
kCowles 1399
kDaeJaweon 1641.050
kDefinition sing; folksong, ballad; rumor
kEACC 4B5936
kFanqie 餘昭
kFenn 658E
kFennIndex 617.07
kFourCornerCode 0767.2
kGradeLevel 5
kGSR 1144j
kHangul 요:0E
kHanYu 64007.131
kHanyuPinlu yáo(19)
kHKGlyph 3844
kIICore ATHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1641.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64007.131
kIRGKangXi 1176.070
kIRG_GSource GE-4D27
kIRG_HSource HB1-C1C1
kIRG_JSource J0-6B6F
kIRG_KPSource KP0-FAB5
kIRG_KSource K0-692A
kIRG_TSource T1-754C
kIRG_VSource V1-6757
kJapanese ヨウ うたう
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010:U+8B21
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kJapaneseKun UTAI UTAU
kJapaneseOn YOU
kJis0 7579
kKangXi 1176.070
kKarlgren 221
kKorean YO
kLau 3512
kMandarin yáo
kMatthews 7290
kMojiJoho MJ024700
kMorohashi 35832
kNelson 4415
kPhonetic 1597
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6706+149.7.10
kRSUnicode 149.10
kSBGY 148.38
kSimplifiedVariant "谣" U+8C23 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 654.07
kSMSZD2003Readings yáo粵jiu4
kTang iɛu
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kVietnamese dao
kXerox 253:302
kZVariant U+8B21