U+8B38 "謸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8B38 "謸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily conveys the meaning of arrogance, pride, or haughtiness, often with a negative connotation of being disdainful or rude. It is composed of the radical 言 (yán, meaning "speech" or "words") on the left side, which relates to language or speaking, and a phonetic component on the right that influences its pronunciation, though the exact reading varies across different Chinese dialects and languages, such as being read as "áo" in Mandarin. This character appears in classical Chinese texts and extends into other East Asian writing systems that adopt Chinese characters, such as Japanese and Korean, where it maintains similar semantic associations with insolence or defiance. In modern usage, it is relatively rare, found more often in literary or historical contexts than in everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B38
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 謸
HTML Hex Encoding 謸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAC 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B38
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B38
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b38

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 233375
kCNS1986 E-5923
kCNS1992 3-5923
kCangjie YRQSK
kCantonese ngou6
kDaeJaweon 1642.250
kGB3 8373
kHanYu 64003.090
kIRGDaeJaweon 1642.250
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64003.090
kIRGKangXi 1178.200
kIRG_GSource G3-7369
kIRG_JSource JMJ-024729
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7753
kIRG_TSource T3-5923
kJapanese ゴウ そしる
kKangXi 1178.200
kMandarin áo
kMojiJoho MJ024729
kMorohashi 35897
kRSUnicode 149.11
kSimplifiedVariant "𫍵" U+2B375 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 17