U+8BB9 "讹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BB9 "讹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "false," "erroneous," or to "extort" or "blackmail" someone through deception. As a simplified form derived from its traditional counterpart "訛," it is frequently used in modern Mandarin to form words like "讹诈" (to extort) or "以讹传讹" (to spread false information), reflecting its core association with untruths and fraud. This character belongs to the East Asian CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, and its written form combines the radical "讠" (speech) with the phonetic component "化," illustrating the concept of deceptive or distorted speech.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BB9
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	讹
HTML Hex Encoding	讹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAE 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BB9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BB9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bb9

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	27584A
kCangjie	XIVOP
kCantonese	ngo4
kDefinition	swindle, cheat; erroneous, wrong
kEACC	27584A
kFourCornerCode	3471
kGB0	2279
kHanYu	63948.010
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63948.010
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-366F
kTGH	2013:555
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6073
kMandarin	é
kRSUnicode	149'.4
kTGHZ2013	086.040:é
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"訛" U+8A1B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0283.030:é