U+8B9D "讝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8B9D "讝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that appears in classical texts, primarily meaning "to speak nonsense" or "to rave," often in the context of delirious or feverish rambling. It is composed of the speech radical 言 on the left and a phonetic component 厭 on the right, which gives it a structure that evokes the idea of excessive or disordered speaking. This character is extremely uncommon in modern usage, found mostly in historical or literary works, and is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems. Its representation underscores the depth and nuance of the Chinese script, preserving a specific cultural and linguistic concept with no direct single-word equivalent in many other languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+8B9D
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 讝
HTML Hex Encoding 讝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAE 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8B9D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008B9D
C/C++/Java Escape \u8b9d

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 233538
kCNS1986 E-617E
kCNS1992 3-617E
kCangjie YRRRK
kCantonese zim1
kCihaiT 1259.602
kDaeJaweon 1652.100
kGB3 8323
kHanYu 64034.110
kHanyuPinyin 64034.110:zhán
kIRGDaeJaweon 1652.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64034.110
kIRGKangXi 1188.090
kIRG_GSource G3-7337
kIRG_JSource J3-7C35
kIRG_KPSource KP1-77F6
kIRG_TSource T3-617E
kJapanese セン ダン ネン
kJIS0213 1,92,21
kKangXi 1188.090
kMandarin zhān
kMojiJoho MJ024863
kMorohashi 36169
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+17131+149.7.20
kRSUnicode 149.20
kSimplifiedVariant "𰵨" U+30D68 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 26