U+8BC3 "诃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8BC3 "诃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily serves as a variant or simplified form of the traditional character "訶," which is commonly used in East Asian languages to mean "to scold," "to rebuke," or "to blame." In historical and modern contexts, it often appears in classical texts and Buddhist scriptures, where it conveys a sense of severe reprimand or denunciation, and it is also occasionally employed as a phonetic component in transliterations of foreign terms.

General Properties

Code Point U+8BC3
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 诃
HTML Hex Encoding 诃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAF 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8BC3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008BC3
C/C++/Java Escape \u8bc3

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 29322B
kCangjie IVMNR
kCantonese ho1
kDefinition scold loudly, curse, abuse
kEACC 51356A
kFourCornerCode 3172
kGB0 5813
kHanYu 63952.120
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63952.120
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-5A2D
kTGH 2013:3795
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6084
kMandarin
kRSUnicode 149'.5
kTGHZ2013 133.110:hē
kTotalStrokes 7
kTraditionalVariant "訶" U+8A36 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0448.040:hē