U+8BBC "讼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BBC "讼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to litigate," "to dispute," or "to bring a lawsuit." It is composed of the radical 讠 (simplified form of 言, meaning "speech") on the left, and the phonetic component 公 (meaning "public" or "fair") on the right, together conveying the idea of verbal argument or legal conflict conducted in a public or formal setting. In modern usage, it appears in words such as 诉讼 (lawsuit), 争议 (dispute), and 讼案 (legal case), and it retains its classical association with legal proceedings and contentious debates in both written and spoken Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BBC
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	讼
HTML Hex Encoding	讼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAE 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BBC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BBC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bbc

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	27584B
kCangjie	IVCI
kCantonese	zung6
kDefinition	accuse; argue, dispute; litigate
kEACC	27584B
kFourCornerCode	3873
kGB0	4347
kHanYu	63949.040
kHanyuPinlu	sòng(27)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63949.040
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-4B4F
kTGH	2013:557
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6075
kMandarin	sòng
kRSUnicode	149'.4
kTGHZ2013	348.110:sòng
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"訟" U+8A1F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1092.140:sòng