U+8B21 "謡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
謡
U+8B21 "謡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is also used in Japanese as a kanji. Its primary meaning relates to "song," "chant," or "ballad," and it is often found in compound words like "民謡" (min'yō, meaning folk song) or "歌謡" (kayō, meaning song or ballad). The character combines the "言" (speech/words) radical on the left with the phonetic component "䍃" (yáo) on the right, and it appears in historical texts and classical poetry, as well as modern contexts such as music and performance traditions, particularly in Japanese Noh theater where "謡" refers to the chanting of texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B21 |
| 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 | 謡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 謡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAC 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b21 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | YRBOU |
| kCantonese | jiu4 |
| kDefinition | sing; folksong, ballad; rumor |
| kEACC | 215936 |
| kFanqie | 餘昭 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0267.2 |
| kGB1 | 5005 |
| kHanYu | 64007.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64007.040:yáo |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64007.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1177.021 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5225 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4D58 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7724 |
| kJapanese | ヨウ うたい うたう |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | UTAI UTAU |
| kJapaneseOn | YOU |
| kJis0 | 4556 |
| kKangXi | 1177.021 |
| kMandarin | yáo |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024701 |
| kMorohashi | 35779' |
| kNelson | 4410 |
| kPhonetic | 1597* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3906+149.7.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.10 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "谣" U+8C23 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6202 |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |
| kZVariant | U+8B20 |