U+8BA0 "讠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+8BA0 "讠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a simplified Chinese radical that serves as the left-hand component of many characters related to speech, language, or words, such as 说 (shuō, "to speak") or 话 (huà, "speech"). Derived from the traditional radical 言 (yán), which also means "words" or "speech," this simplified form was officially standardized in mainland China as part of the script reforms to reduce stroke count and improve legibility. It is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, representing a fundamental building block for thousands of Chinese characters in modern writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BA0 |
| 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 | 讠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 讠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAE 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8ba0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 455837 |
| kCangjie | INV |
| kCantonese | jin4 |
| kDefinition | simplified Kangxi radical 149 |
| kEACC | 455837 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3070 |
| kGB0 | 5805 |
| kHanYu | 63936.012 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63936.011 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5A25 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8BE7 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMandarin | yán |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.0 |
| kTotalStrokes | 2 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "訁" U+8A01 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |