U+8B73 "譳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8B73 "譳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block and historically appears in classical Chinese texts, where it is associated with meanings related to speech or verbal expression, often describing a lack of clarity or mumbling. The character is composed of the radical for "speech" or "words" (言) on the left, combined with a phonetic component on the right, following the typical structure of many sinograms. Due to its obscurity, it is not present in most contemporary dictionaries or character sets, and its precise usage remains largely confined to specialized linguistic or literary studies.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B73
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 譳
HTML Hex Encoding 譳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAD 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B73
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B73
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b73

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 233471
kCNS1986 E-642D
kCNS1992 3-642D
kCangjie YRMBB
kCantonese nau6
kCihaiT 1257.301
kDaeJaweon 1647.190
kFanqie 奴豆
kGB3 8411
kHanYu 64027.110
kHanyuPinyin 64027.110:nòu
kIRGDaeJaweon 1647.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64027.110
kIRGKangXi 1184.100
kIRG_GSource G3-742B
kIRG_JSource JMJ-024814
kIRG_KPSource KP1-77AC
kIRG_TSource T4-673B
kJapanese ドウ ヌ
kKangXi 1184.100
kMandarin nòu
kMojiJoho MJ024814
kMorohashi 36040
kPhonetic 1250*
kRSUnicode 149.14
kSBGY 439.04
kSimplifiedVariant "𰶌" U+30D8C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 21