U+8B59 "譙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
譙
U+8B59 "譙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that functions as a variant of the more common character "譙" (qiáo or qiào), which primarily means "to blame" or "to reprimand" in classical and literary Chinese contexts. It also appears in historical texts as a component in the name of the ancient Qiao County or as a surname. In modern usage, the character is less frequent but retains its core semantic connection to verbal criticism or scolding, and it is encoded in the CJK unified ideographs block to represent its usage across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems where it may be employed in scholarly or historical references.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B59 |
| 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 | 譙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 譙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAD 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b59 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C3D7 |
| kCCCII | 233459 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7924 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7924 |
| kCangjie | YROGF |
| kCantonese | ciu4 |
| kCihaiT | 1255.305 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1645.020 |
| kDefinition | tower; surname |
| kEACC | 233459 |
| kFanqie | 昨焦 |
| kFennIndex | 53.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0063.1 |
| kGB1 | 5859 |
| kGSR | 1148j |
| kHangul | 초:1N |
| kHanYu | 64019.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64019.030:qiào,qiáo |
| kIICore | AT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1645.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64019.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1182.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5A5B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C3D7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7C33 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7774 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6F79 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7924 |
| kJapanese | ショウ ジョウ スイ ズイ しかる せめる たかどの ものみやぐら |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,92,19 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIKARU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU JOU SUI ZUI |
| kJis1 | 6245 |
| kKangXi | 1182.020 |
| kKorean | CHO |
| kMandarin | qiào |
| kMatthews | 758 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3401d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024778 |
| kMorohashi | 35976 |
| kPhonetic | 216 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17129+149.7.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.12 |
| kSBGY | 147.34 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8A9A<kFenn |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "谯" U+8C2F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 655.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qiáo粵ciu4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6222 |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 306:355 |