U+8B25 "謥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
謥
U+8B25 "謥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and traditional Chinese character classified under the radical for "speech" (言) and consisting of a complex structure of brush strokes, pronounced as "còng" in modern Mandarin. This character is historically used in classical Chinese contexts, where it conveys the meaning of "to urge" or "to hasten," often implying a sense of pushing someone to action or accelerating a process through spoken command. Though extremely uncommon in contemporary usage, it appears in certain classical texts and dictionaries, reflecting the depth of the Chinese writing system where many such characters preserve nuanced meanings tied to ancient literary and administrative practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B25 |
| 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 | 謥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 謥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAC 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B25 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B25 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b25 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F0E5 |
| kCCCII | 233440 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6350 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6350 |
| kCangjie | YRHWP |
| kCantonese | cung3 |
| kCihaiT | 1254.401 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1641.260 |
| kFanqie | 千弄 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0663.0 |
| kGB5 | 8276 |
| kHanYu | 64013.090 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1641.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64013.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1177.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-726C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F0E5 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-024705 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7748 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6134 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6350 |
| kJapanese | ソウ ス |
| kKangXi | 1177.060 |
| kMandarin | còng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024705 |
| kMorohashi | 35855 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.11 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𰶂" U+30D82 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |