U+8B3F "謿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

謿

U+8B3F "謿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means to ridicule, mock, or deride, often carrying connotations of irony or sarcasm in classical literary contexts. It is composed of the radical "言" (yán, meaning speech or words) on the left, indicating its relation to spoken language, and the phonetic component "朝" (zhāo or cháo) on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. This character is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, but it may appear in historical texts, poetry, or specialized dictionaries, where it functions as a variant or more elaborate form of simpler words like "嘲" (cháo, to mock). Its inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs block allows it to be represented digitally alongside thousands of other East Asian characters, preserving its linguistic and cultural heritage for scholarly and archival purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B3F
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 謿
HTML Hex Encoding 謿
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAC 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B3F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B3F
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b3f

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 23344F
kCNS1986 E-5B34
kCNS1992 3-5B34
kCangjie YRJJB
kCantonese zaau1
kCihaiT 1254.501
kDaeJaweon 1643.190
kDefinition ridicule, deride, scorn, jeer at
kEACC 23344F
kGB5 8288
kHanYu 64017.050
kIRGDaeJaweon 1643.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64017.050
kIRGKangXi 1179.180
kIRG_GSource G5-7278
kIRG_HSource H-8FE2
kIRG_JSource JMJ-024738
kIRG_KPSource KP1-776D
kIRG_TSource T3-5B34
kJapanese トウ
kKangXi 1179.180
kMandarin cháo
kMojiJoho MJ024738
kMorohashi 35925
kRSUnicode 149.12
kSMSZD2003Index 656.03
kTaiwanTelegraph 6213
kTotalStrokes 19
kUnihanCore2020 H
kXerox 323:137
kXHC1983 0128.021:cháo