U+8B66 "警" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
警
U+8B66 "警" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to warn," "to alert," or "police," and it is composed of the radical 言 (speech) combined with the phonetic component 敬 (respect or caution), reflecting its core semantic link to verbal caution or official vigilance. This character is widely used in East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, appearing in common terms such as 警察 (jǐngchá, meaning police) and 警告 (jǐnggào, meaning warning). Its structure illustrates the logographic nature of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) writing system, where meaning and sound are often conveyed through the combination of semantic and phonetic elements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B66 |
| 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 | 警 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 警 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAD 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B66 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B66 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b66 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C4B5 |
| kCCCII | 215945 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7A40 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7A40 |
| kCangjie | TKYMR |
| kCantonese | ging2 |
| kCihaiT | 1255.602 |
| kCowles | 1675 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1645.300 |
| kDefinition | guard, watch; alert, alarm |
| kEACC | 215945 |
| kFanqie | 居影 |
| kFenn | 228C |
| kFennIndex | 80.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4860.1 |
| kGB0 | 3015 |
| kGB1 | 3015 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0813j |
| kHangul | 경:0E |
| kHanYu | 64017.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jǐng(198) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64017.040:jǐng |
| kHKGlyph | 3859 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1645.300 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64017.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1183.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3E2F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C4B5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3759 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CFD1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4C6D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7A40 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-675E |
| kJapanese | ケイ キョウ いましめ いましめる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:3453 |
| kJapaneseKun | IMASHIMERU IMASHIME |
| kJapaneseOn | KEI KYOU |
| kJis0 | 2357 |
| kKangXi | 1183.050 |
| kKarlgren | 396 |
| kKorean | KYENG |
| kLau | 918 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6226 |
| kMandarin | jǐng |
| kMatthews | 1139 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1162 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024795 MJ024795:E0101 MJ024796:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 35989 35989:E0101 36009:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4439 |
| kPhonetic | 627 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1839+149.7.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.13 |
| kSBGY | 316.09 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5106<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 656.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jǐng粵ging2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6226 |
| kTang | giæ̌ng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 180.040:jǐng |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | khểnh |
| kXerox | 246:272 |
| kXHC1983 | 0600.050:jǐng |