U+8BBA "论" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
论
U+8BBA "论" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "discussion," "opinion," or "theory," and it is commonly used in modern Mandarin as in the word "讨论" (tǎolùn, to discuss) or "理论" (lǐlùn, theory). This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block in Unicode, and its structure combines the radical 讠 (speech) on the left with the component 仑 (order or logic) on the right, reflecting its semantic link to reasoned discourse or debate. In traditional Chinese, it is typically written as 論, and it appears frequently in academic, philosophical, and everyday contexts across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BBA |
| 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 | 论 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 论 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAE 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BBA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BBA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8bba |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275924 |
| kCangjie | IVOP |
| kCantonese | leon6 |
| kDefinition | debate; discuss; discourse |
| kEACC | 275924 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3871 |
| kGB0 | 3459 |
| kHanYu | 63948.130 |
| kHanyuPinlu | lùn(1472) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63948.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-425B |
| kTGH | 2013:556 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6158 |
| kMandarin | lùn |
| kPhonetic | 851* |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.4 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 644.08 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 237.090:lún 237.160:lùn |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "論" U+8AD6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0746.010:lún 0747.060:lùn |