U+8B44 "譄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8B44 "譄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a seldom‑used Chinese character that falls under the category of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs. It is composed of the radical "言" on the left, which relates to speech or words, and the phonetic component "曾" on the right, which can convey meanings associated with "once" or "increase" in different contexts. While this character is not widely encountered in modern standard Chinese, dictionaries attest to its historical usage, where it can carry senses related to praising or adding words, reflecting the phonetic component's influence on pronunciation and meaning. Its rarity often makes it a subject of interest for specialists in historical linguistics, paleography, and the study of archaic or literary Chinese texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B44
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 譄
HTML Hex Encoding 譄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAD 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B44
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B44
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b44

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 233443
kCangjie YRCWA
kCantonese zang1
kDaeJaweon 1643.290
kFanqie 作滕
kGB5 8304
kHanYu 64019.100
kHanyuPinyin 64019.100:zēng
kIRGDaeJaweon 1643.290
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64019.100
kIRGKangXi 1180.020
kIRG_GSource G5-7324
kIRG_JSource J1-5E46
kIRG_KPSource KP1-776F
kIRG_KSource K2-6145
kIRG_TSource T4-613A
kJapanese ソウ
kJapaneseKun SHIIRU
kJapaneseOn SOU
kJis1 6238
kKangXi 1180.020
kMandarin zēng
kMojiJoho MJ024745 MJ024745:E0101 MJ024746:E0102 MJ024747:E0103 MJ068067:E0106
kMorohashi 35935 35935:E0101
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+15146+149.7.12
kRSUnicode 149.12
kSBGY 201.28
kSimplifiedVariant "𬤤" U+2C924 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 19