U+8BB3 "讳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BB3 "讳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the concept of a taboo, avoidance, or a name that is considered forbidden to utter out of respect or reverence, often used in historical contexts for the personal names of emperors or elders to be avoided. It is composed of the radical for speech or words on the left and a phonetic component on the right, and it appears in various classical texts and modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing, where it denotes a prohibition or a euphemistic avoidance of certain topics or names.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BB3
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	讳
HTML Hex Encoding	讳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAE 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BB3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BB3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bb3

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	275928
kCangjie	IVQS
kCantonese	wai5
kDefinition	conceal; shun; regard as taboo
kEACC	275928
kFourCornerCode	3572
kGB0	2768
kHanYu	63944.140
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63944.140
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-3B64
kTGH	2013:551
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6172
kMandarin	huì
kPhonetic	1433*
kRSUnicode	149'.4
kSMSZD2003Index	644.11
kTGHZ2013	148.150:huì
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"諱" U+8AF1 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0504.010:huì