U+8B5B "譛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8B5B "譛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character often considered a variant of the more common character "譖" (zèn), which means to slander or falsely accuse someone. In classical and literary Chinese contexts, it appears in historical texts and poetry, where it conveys the act of speaking maliciously or making unfounded allegations against another person. The character is composed of the radical "言" (speech) on the left, indicating its relation to spoken words, and a phonetic component on the right. Due to its obscurity, "譛" is seldom used in modern writing and is primarily encountered in specialized linguistic or historical studies of East Asian scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B5B
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 譛
HTML Hex Encoding 譛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAD 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B5B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B5B
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b5b

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 35344D
kCangjie YRQOA
kCantonese zam3
kDefinition to slander
kEACC 35344D
kFourCornerCode 0566.3
kHanYu 80040.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 80040.280
kIRGKangXi 1182.111
kIRG_GSource GE-4D33
kIRG_JSource J0-6B7C
kIRG_MSource MD-8B5B
kJapanese シン そしる
kJapaneseKun SOSHIRU
kJapaneseOn SHIN SEN
kJis0 7592
kKangXi 1182.111
kMandarin zèn
kMojiJoho MJ024781
kMorohashi H570
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6719+149.7.12
kRSUnicode 149.12
kTotalStrokes 19
kUnihanCore2020 J