U+8B8A "變" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
變
U+8B8A "變" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that fundamentally means "to change," "to transform," or "to alter," conveying a sense of dynamic transition from one state to another. Composed of elements suggesting speech and action, its structure visually implies a process of modification or mutation, and it is widely used in classical and modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts. In Chinese philosophy and culture, this character carries significant weight, appearing in key concepts such as "yì" (易) from the I Ching, where change is seen as a fundamental principle of the universe, and it is also found in common compounds like "變化" (biànhuà), meaning "change" or "variation."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B8A |
| 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 | 變 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 變 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAE 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b8a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C5DC |
| kCCCII | 21594B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7C48 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7C48 |
| kCangjie | VFOK |
| kCantonese | bin3 |
| kCihaiT | 1257.606 |
| kCowles | 3293 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1650.020 |
| kDefinition | change, transform, alter; rebel |
| kEACC | 21594B |
| kFanqie | 彼眷 |
| kFenn | 888B |
| kFennIndex | 409.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2240.8 |
| kGB1 | 1768 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0178o |
| kHangul | 변:0E |
| kHanYu | 21481.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | biàn(1669) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21481.070:biàn |
| kHKGlyph | 3865 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1650.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21481.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1186.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3164 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C5DC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5A4E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DDF1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5C28 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7C48 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6766 |
| kJapanese | ヘン ベン かわる |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAWARU |
| kJapaneseOn | HEN |
| kJis0 | 5846 |
| kKangXi | 1186.120 |
| kKorean | PYEN |
| kLau | 99 |
| kMandarin | biàn |
| kMatthews | 5245 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2361 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024841 MJ024841:E0101 MJ024840:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 36117 36117:E0101 36112:E0102 |
| kNelson | 1166 2063 |
| kPhonetic | 833 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5075+66.4.19 C+5075+149.7.16 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.16 |
| kSBGY | 410.57 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+53D8<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe U+5909<kHanYu:T |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "变" U+53D8 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 657.08 533.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | biàn粵bin3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6239 |
| kTang | byɛ̀n |
| kTotalStrokes | 23 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | biến |
| kXerox | 242:343 |
| kXHC1983 | 0066.071:biàn |