U+8BA5 "讥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8BA5 "讥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to ridicule," "to satirize," or "to mock." It is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left, indicating its connection to spoken or written expression, and the phonetic component 几 on the right. In modern Mandarin, "讥" often appears in compound words such as 讥笑 (jīxiào, meaning "to sneer" or "to laugh at") and 讥讽 (jīfěng, meaning "to satirize" or "to taunt"), conveying a tone of harsh or pointed criticism. This character is classified under the Kangxi radical for speech and is widely used in both formal and informal contexts to describe scornful or derisive commentary.

General Properties

Code Point U+8BA5
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 讥
HTML Hex Encoding 讥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAE 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8BA5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008BA5
C/C++/Java Escape \u8ba5

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 275942
kCangjie IVHN
kCantonese gei1
kDefinition ridicule, jeer, mock; inspect
kEACC 275942
kFourCornerCode 3771
kGB0 2805
kHanYu 63939.030
kHanyuPinlu jī(19)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63939.030
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-3C25
kTGH 2013:173
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6217
kMandarin
kPhonetic 598*
kRSUnicode 149'.2
kSMSZD2003Index 642.07
kTGHZ2013 153.030:jī
kTotalStrokes 4
kTraditionalVariant "譏" U+8B4F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0521.060:jī