U+8B8E "讎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8B8E "讎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character with multiple meanings, primarily conveying the concepts of "enemy," "foe," or "revenge," and also can be used to mean "to correspond" or "to match" in classical texts. Historically, it appears in literary and philosophical works, such as in the phrase "讎詁" referring to collation or annotation of texts, while also carrying a strong connotation of antagonism or retaliation. This character is formed from the radical 言 (speech) combined with elements suggesting a pairing or opposition, and it remains relevant in scholarly discussions of classical Chinese literature and in terms related to enmity.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B8E
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 讎
HTML Hex Encoding 讎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAE 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B8E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B8E
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b8e

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

kBigFive F841
kCCCII 23352A
kCNS1986 2-6F4F
kCNS1992 2-6F4F
kCangjie OGYRG
kCantonese cau4
kCihaiT 1259.103
kCowles 476
kDaeJaweon 1650.090
kDefinition enemy, rival, opponent
kEACC 2D306C
kFanqie 市流
kFennIndex 92.01
kFourCornerCode 2021.4
kGB1 8637
kGSR 1091a
kHangul 수:1N
kHanYu 64112.070
kHanyuPinyin 64112.070:chóu
kIICore CT
kIRGDaeJaweon 1650.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64112.070
kIRGKangXi 1186.210
kIRG_GSource G1-7645
kIRG_HSource HB2-F841
kIRG_JSource J0-6C28
kIRG_KPSource KP1-77DA
kIRG_KSource K1-6539
kIRG_TSource T2-6F4F
kIRG_VSource V1-6767
kJapanese シュウ ジュ あだ むくいる
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun MUKUIRU ADA
kJapaneseOn SHUU
kJis0 7608
kKangXi 1186.210
kKorean SWU
kLau 233
kMandarin chóu
kMatthews 1333
kMeyerWempe 181
kMojiJoho MJ024847
kMorohashi 36124
kNelson 5041
kPhonetic 92
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6729+149.7.16
kRSUnicode 149.16
kSBGY 206.24
kSemanticVariant U+4EC7<kMeyerWempe U+8B90<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant "雠" U+96E0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 657.10 759.05
kSMSZD2003Readings chóu粵cau4
kSpecializedSemanticVariant U+4EC7<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph 6241
kTotalStrokes 23
kUnihanCore2020 HJMT
kVietnamese thù
kXerox 300:342
kXHC1983 0153.011,0153.021:chóu