U+8B8C "讌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
讌
U+8B8C "讌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or historical Chinese character that primarily relates to the concept of a feast or banquet, often specifically associated with communal drinking and celebration. It is composed of the radical 言 (speech) and the phonetic component 燕 (swallow or Yan), reflecting its classical usage in literary or poetic contexts to describe grand gatherings. While not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin, it appears in classical Chinese texts and is encoded to support the digital representation of such traditional characters for scholarly, historical, and linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B8C |
| 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 | 讌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 讌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAE 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b8c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F840 |
| kCCCII | 233524 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6F4E |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6F4E |
| kCangjie | YRTLF |
| kCantonese | jin3 |
| kCihaiT | 1259.102 |
| kCowles | 1348 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1650.060 |
| kDefinition | a feast, banquet; to entertain, feast |
| kEACC | 2D4A28 |
| kFanqie | 於甸 |
| kFennIndex | 627.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0463.1 |
| kGB3 | 8419 |
| kGSR | 0243e |
| kHangul | 연:1N |
| kHanYu | 64030.160 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64030.160:yàn |
| kIICore | CT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1650.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64030.160 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1186.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-7433 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F840 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6C27 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-77E2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-674F |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6F4E |
| kJapanese | エン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KUTSUROGU SAKAMORI |
| kJapaneseOn | EN |
| kJis0 | 7607 |
| kKangXi | 1186.190 |
| kKorean | YEN |
| kLau | 3466 |
| kMandarin | yàn |
| kMatthews | 7364 |
| kMeyerWempe | 889f |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024844 MJ024844:E0101 MJ024845:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 36121 36121:E0101 |
| kNelson | 4453 |
| kPhonetic | 1573 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6728+149.7.16 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.16 |
| kSBGY | 408.24 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5BB4<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "䜩" U+4729 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 657.11 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6240 |
| kTotalStrokes | 23 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 322:353 |
| kXHC1983 | 1331.142:yàn |