U+8BB5 "讵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
讵
U+8BB5 "讵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "how" or "to express surprise or rhetorical questioning," often used in classical or literary contexts to imply "how could it be that" or "unexpectedly." It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block and is composed of the radical for "speech" (讠) on the left and the phonetic component "巨" (jù) on the right, which also indicates its pronunciation as "jù" in Mandarin. This character is infrequently used in modern standard Chinese, appearing more commonly in historical texts, poems, or formal writing to convey a tone of disbelief or contradiction, and it has notable occurrences in classical works like those of Zhuangzi.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BB5 |
| 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 | 讵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 讵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAE 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8bb5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 29322A |
| kCangjie | IVSS |
| kCantonese | geoi6 |
| kDefinition | an interjection used express surprise |
| kEACC | 29322A |
| kFourCornerCode | 3171 |
| kGB0 | 5810 |
| kHanYu | 63945.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63945.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5A2A |
| kTGH | 2013:3632 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6093 |
| kMandarin | jù |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 185.110:jù |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "詎" U+8A4E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0614.040:jù |