U+8B40 "譀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

譀

U+8B40 "譀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or historical Chinese character that has been assigned to the Unicode Standard as part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block. This character is composed of the radical for speech or words (言) combined with a phonetic component, and its traditional meanings can include concepts related to exaggeration, boasting, or foolish speech, though its precise usage and frequency vary across different historical texts and regional contexts. It is primarily encountered in classical Chinese literature or specialized dictionaries rather than in modern everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8B40
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	譀
HTML Hex Encoding	譀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAD 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8B40
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008B40
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8b40

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	F2F9
kCCCII	23344B
kCNS1986	2-6726
kCNS1992	2-6726
kCangjie	YRMJK
kCantonese	ham6
kCihaiT	1255.502
kDaeJaweon	1643.200
kFanqie	下瞰許鑑呼甲
kFourCornerCode	0864.0
kGB3	8390
kHanYu	64016.040
kHanyuPinyin	64016.040:hàn,xiàn
kIRGDaeJaweon	1643.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64016.040
kIRGKangXi	1179.190
kIRG_GSource	G3-737A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F2F9
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-024739
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-777A
kIRG_KSource	K2-6143
kIRG_TSource	T2-6726
kJapanese	カンガンコウゲンケンキョウ
kKangXi	1179.190
kMandarin	hàn
kMojiJoho	MJ024739
kMorohashi	35926
kRSUnicode	149.12
kSBGY	443.12 445.51 545.09
kSimplifiedVariant	"𰶆" U+30D86 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT