U+8B25 "謥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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