U+8BB6 "讶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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
kPhonetic 951*
kRSUnicode 149'.4
kTGHZ2013 420.150:yà
kTotalStrokes 6
kTraditionalVariant "訝" U+8A1D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1322.010:yà