U+8B9B "讛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
讛
U+8B9B "讛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character, pronounced “yì” in Mandarin, that belongs to the set of East Asian ideographs standardized under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified script. It is composed of the “言” (speech) radical and a phonetic component, and its historical meaning relates to elevated, lofty, or pure speech, often associated with ceremonial or respectful language. This character is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing, but it appears in classical texts and specialized lexicons, serving as an example of the extensive repertoire of ideographs that document the nuanced vocabulary of ancient literary traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8B9B |
| 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 | 讛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 讛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAE 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8B9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008B9B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8b9b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 233535 |
| kCNS1986 | E-616B |
| kCNS1992 | 3-616B |
| kCangjie | YRTGI |
| kCantonese | ngai6 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1652.050 |
| kDefinition | talk in one's sleep, somniloquy |
| kGB5 | 8158 |
| kHanYu | 64033.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 64033.060:yì |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1652.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64033.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-715A |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8FE8 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-024861 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-77F4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6172 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-616B |
| kJapanese | ゲイ |
| kKangXi | 1188.050 |
| kMandarin | yì |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024861 |
| kMorohashi | 36164 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.19 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+56C8<kSMSZD2003Index:TZ |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𰵖" U+30D56 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 658.05 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6248 |
| kTotalStrokes | 25 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |
| kXerox | 313:375 |
| kXHC1983 | 1372.012:yì |