U+8B5A "譚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
譚
U+8B5A "譚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to talk" or "to converse," often carrying connotations of discussion or narrative, as seen in words like "談話" or the compound "譚論." This character is also a common surname in Chinese societies, and it appears in historical and literary contexts, such as the classical text "莊子" where it is used in the name of a figure, reflecting its deep roots in East Asian written culture as a logogram within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, which standardizes characters across these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B5A |
| 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 | 譚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 譚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAD 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B5A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B5A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b5a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C3D3 |
| kCCCII | 215940 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-787E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-787E |
| kCangjie | YRMWJ |
| kCantonese | taam4 |
| kCihaiT | 1255.402 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1645.040 |
| kDefinition | surname; to talk |
| kEACC | 215940 |
| kFanqie | 徒含 徒感 |
| kFenn | 780H |
| kFennIndex | 496.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0164.6 |
| kGB1 | 4423 |
| kGSR | 0646c |
| kHangul | 담:0N |
| kHanYu | 64017.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64017.080:tán |
| kHKGlyph | 3854 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1645.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64017.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1182.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4C37 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C3D3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6B7D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D5D6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5349 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-787E |
| kJapanese | タン ダン はなし |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | HANASHI |
| kJapaneseOn | TAN DAN |
| kJis0 | 7593 |
| kKangXi | 1182.050 |
| kKorean | TAM |
| kLau | 2997 |
| kMandarin | tán |
| kMatthews | 6066 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2940b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024780 MJ024780:E0102 MJ024779:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 35978:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4432 |
| kPhonetic | 1292 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6720+149.7.12 V+14221+149.7.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.12 |
| kSBGY | 221.10 330.33 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8AC7<kLau |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "谭" U+8C2D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 655.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | tán粵taam4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6223 |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 255:241 |