U+8BB4 "讴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BB4 "讴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to sing" or "a song" and is often associated with the concept of chanting or praising in verse. It is composed of the radical "讠," which signifies speech or language, and the phonetic component "区," which contributes to its pronunciation as "ōu" in Mandarin. Historically, this character appears in classical Chinese poetry and texts to describe melodic recitation or folk songs, and it remains in use in modern Chinese for terms related to singing, such as "讴歌" meaning to eulogize or extol.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BB4
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	讴
HTML Hex Encoding	讴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAE 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BB4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BB4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bb4

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	293430
kCangjie	IVSK
kCantonese	au1
kDefinition	sing; songs
kEACC	293430
kFourCornerCode	3171
kGB0	5809
kHanYu	63944.170
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63944.170
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-5A29
kTGH	2013:3631
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6209
kMandarin	ōu
kRSUnicode	149'.4
kSMSZD2003Index	644.10
kTGHZ2013	272.050:ōu
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"謳" U+8B33 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0845.080:ōu