U+8BAF "讯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8BAF "讯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to interrogate" or "news/message" and is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) and the phonetic component 卂, reflecting its semantic link to communication and inquiry. In modern usage, it appears in words such as "讯问" (xùnwèn, to interrogate) and "通讯" (tōngxùn, communication or correspondence), making it a common element in contexts involving information exchange, journalism, and legal procedures.

General Properties

Code Point U+8BAF
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 讯
HTML Hex Encoding 讯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAE 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8BAF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008BAF
C/C++/Java Escape \u8baf

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 275840
kCangjie IVNJ
kCantonese seon3
kDefinition inquire; ask; examine; reproach
kEACC 275840
kFourCornerCode 3771
kGB0 4922
kHanYu 63943.010
kHanyuPinlu xùn(132)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63943.010
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-5136
kTGH 2013:322
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6061
kMandarin xùn
kPhonetic 1267*
kRSUnicode 149'.3
kTGHZ2013 418.040:xùn
kTotalStrokes 5
kTraditionalVariant "訊" U+8A0A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1315.100:xùn