U+8B34 "謴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8B34 "謴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character (hanzi) primarily found in classical or literary texts, belonging to the broader CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block. Its meaning is associated with the concept of flattery, toadying, or smooth-talking, often carrying a pejorative connotation of insincere praise. The character combines a "speech" radical (言) with a phonetic component (貫), reflecting its semantic link to verbal expressions. While not commonly encountered in modern standard Mandarin, it may appear in historical documents or highly formalized literary works.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B34
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 謴
HTML Hex Encoding 謴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAC 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B34
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B34
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b34

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

kCCCII 25454D
kCNS1986 E-5928
kCNS1992 3-5928
kCangjie YRWJC
kCantonese gwan3
kDaeJaweon 1642.150
kFanqie 古困
kHanYu 64016.010
kHanyuPinyin 64016.010:gùn
kIRGDaeJaweon 1642.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64016.010
kIRGKangXi 1178.110
kIRG_GSource GE-4D2A
kIRG_JSource JMJ-024724
kIRG_TSource T3-5928
kJapanese コン
kKangXi 1178.110
kMandarin gùn
kMojiJoho MJ024724
kMorohashi 35887
kRSUnicode 149.11
kSBGY 399.41
kSimplifiedVariant "𬤆" U+2C906 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 18