U+8BA3 "讣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BA3 "讣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character formed from the radical for speech or words on the left and the radical for divination or to foretell on the right, and it primarily means an obituary notice or announcement of a death. This character is commonly used in formal or news contexts to refer to a death report, often appearing in compound terms like 讣告 (fùgào), which designates an official obituary announcement. As a part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it represents a logographic writing system used across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, though its usage is most prevalent in modern and classical Chinese texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BA3
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	讣
HTML Hex Encoding	讣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAE 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BA3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BA3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8ba3

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	27583A
kCangjie	IVY
kCantonese	fu6
kDefinition	obituary; give notice of death
kEACC	27583A
kFourCornerCode	3370
kGB0	2428
kHanYu	63939.010
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63939.010
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-383C
kTGH	2013:3523
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6058
kMandarin	fù
kRSUnicode	149'.2
kTGHZ2013	102.120:fù
kTotalStrokes	4
kTraditionalVariant	"訃" U+8A03 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0343.010:fù