U+8B97 "讗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8B97 "讗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character used primarily in classical or historical texts rather than in modern everyday language. Its meaning is not widely standardized but has been associated with concepts related to speech or boasting, as it incorporates the radical for "word" or "speech" (讠). The character's structure includes multiple phonetic and semantic components, leading to debate among scholars about its precise definition and usage in historical Chinese literature. Due to its obscurity, it is not commonly found in contemporary dictionaries or digital fonts, making it a subject of interest mainly for specialists in ancient scripts and Unicode encoding.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B97
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 讗
HTML Hex Encoding 讗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAE 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B97
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B97
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b97

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 233533
kCNS1986 E-614B
kCNS1992 3-614B
kCangjie YRUOB
kCantonese kwai4
kDaeJaweon 1651.240
kFanqie 戶圭 古獲
kGB3 8421
kHanYu 64033.100
kHanyuPinyin 64033.100:xié
kIRGDaeJaweon 1651.240
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64033.100
kIRGKangXi 1187.210
kIRG_GSource G3-7435
kIRG_JSource JMJ-024856
kIRG_KPSource KP1-77EF
kIRG_KSource K2-616F
kIRG_TSource T3-614B
kJapanese カク ワク キャク カ ゲ ケイ エ
kKangXi 1187.210
kMandarin xié
kMojiJoho MJ024856
kMorohashi 36153
kRSUnicode 149.18
kSBGY 092.38 513.46
kTotalStrokes 25