U+8B52 "譒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8B52 "譒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph block, though its modern usage is extremely limited and it is not a commonly encountered character in contemporary texts. In classical Chinese contexts, this character is understood to carry a meaning related to "to slander" or "to speak ill of," often conveying a sense of false accusation or malicious gossip. Its structure combines a speech or language radical, typically associated with words or speaking, with a phonetic component that hints at its pronunciation, which in modern Mandarin is read as "bō." Due to its obscurity, the character appears primarily in historical or specialized literary works rather than in everyday writing, making it a point of interest for scholars of Chinese etymology or those studying rare script forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8B52
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	譒
HTML Hex Encoding	譒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAD 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8B52
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008B52
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8b52

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	F342
kCCCII	233455
kCNS1986	2-672E
kCNS1992	2-672E
kCangjie	YRHDW
kCantonese	bo3
kDaeJaweon	1644.160
kFanqie	補過
kFourCornerCode	0266.9
kGB5	8294
kGSR	0195q
kHanYu	64019.110
kHanyuPinyin	64019.110:bò
kIRGDaeJaweon	1644.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64019.110
kIRGKangXi	1181.050
kIRG_GSource	G5-727E
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F342
kIRG_JSource	J1-5E4A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7777
kIRG_KSource	K2-614D
kIRG_TSource	T2-672E
kJapanese	ハ
kJapaneseKun	SHIKU
kJapaneseOn	HA
kJis1	6242
kKangXi	1181.050
kMandarin	bò
kMojiJoho	MJ024768
kMorohashi	35962
kPhonetic	338*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19817+149.7.12
kRSUnicode	149.12
kSBGY	420.37
kSimplifiedVariant	"𮷊" U+2EDCA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTaiwanTelegraph	6218
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	313:372