U+8BB8 "许" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BB8 "许" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily functions as a verb meaning "to allow," "to permit," or "to promise." It is composed of the radical "讠" (speech) on the left, indicating a connection to language, and the phonetic component "午" on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation as "xǔ" in Mandarin. This character appears frequently in everyday Chinese vocabulary, such as in "允许" (yǔnxǔ, to permit) and "许诺" (xǔnuò, to make a promise), and is also used as a surname in Chinese culture.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BB8
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	许
HTML Hex Encoding	许
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAE 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BB8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BB8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bb8

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	275848
kCangjie	IVOJ
kCantonese	heoi2
kDefinition	allow, permit; promise; betroth
kEACC	275848
kFourCornerCode	3874
kGB0	4877
kHanYu	63947.010
kHanyuPinlu	xǔ(1465)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63947.010
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-506D
kTGH	2013:554
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6079
kMandarin	xǔ
kPhonetic	950*
kRSUnicode	149'.4
kTGHZ2013	413.010:xǔ
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"許" U+8A31 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1301.080:xǔ