U+8B8D "讍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
讍
U+8B8D "讍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically obscure Chinese character that appears in classical texts, where it is associated with meanings related to speaking or uttering words, often with a connotation of honesty or directness. Classified under the radical 言 (speech), this character is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin, and its exact pronunciation and usage have become the subject of scholarly interest primarily among linguists and specialists in ancient Chinese philology. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it stands as a testament to the vast and often underutilized repository of historical characters preserved in the Unicode standard for digital representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B8D |
| 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 | 讍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 讍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAE 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B8D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b8d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 2F3357 |
| kCNS1986 | E-6047 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-6047 |
| kCangjie | YRMGR |
| kCantonese | ngok6 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1650.080 |
| kDefinition | honest speech |
| kHanYu | 64030.190 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1650.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64030.190 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1186.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4D3E |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5E5B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-77E1 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-6047 |
| kJapanese | ガク |
| kJapaneseKun | WAMEKU AGO |
| kJapaneseOn | GAKU |
| kJis1 | 6259 |
| kKangXi | 1186.200 |
| kMandarin | è |
| kMatthews | 4795 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024846 |
| kMorohashi | 36123 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+22564+149.7.16 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.16 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8AE4<kMatthews |
| kTotalStrokes | 23 |