U+8BB6 "讶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
讶
U+8BB6 "讶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that belongs to the CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) unified ideographs block. It is composed of the radical for "speech" or "words" on the left and the phonetic component "牙" on the right, and its primary meanings include "to be surprised," "to wonder," or "to express astonishment." In modern Mandarin, this character is commonly used in words such as "惊讶" (jīng yà) meaning "amazed" or "astonished," and it carries a sense of sudden emotional reaction to unexpected information. The character has been in use for centuries in classical and modern Chinese literature, maintaining a consistent semantic focus on surprise or marvel.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BB6 |
| 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 | 讶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 讶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAE 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BB6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BB6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8bb6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275846 |
| kCangjie | IVMVH |
| kCantonese | ngaa6 |
| kDefinition | express surprise, be surprised |
| kEACC | 275846 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3174 |
| kGB0 | 4940 |
| kHanYu | 63945.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yà(33) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63945.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5148 |
| kTGH | 2013:553 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6074 |
| kMandarin | yà |
| kPhonetic | 951* |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 420.150:yà |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "訝" U+8A1D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1322.010:yà |