U+8BC4 "评" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8BC4 "评" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to discuss," "to evaluate," or "to comment," and it is commonly used in modern Standard Chinese as part of words like "批评" (criticism) or "评论" (commentary). Structurally, it combines the phonetic component "平" (píng) with the semantic radical "讠" (speech or language), reflecting its core association with oral or written assessment. As a simplified Chinese character, it corresponds to the traditional form "評" (U+8A55), and its usage spans formal contexts such as literary criticism, academic peer review, and everyday conversation. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, encoded for interoperability across digital systems that support East Asian scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+8BC4
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 评
HTML Hex Encoding 评
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAF 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8BC4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008BC4
C/C++/Java Escape \u8bc4

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 27584E
kCangjie IVMFJ
kCantonese ping4
kDefinition appraise, criticize, evaluate
kEACC 27584E
kFourCornerCode 3174
kGB0 3832
kHanYu 63953.040
kHanyuPinlu píng(439)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63953.040
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-4640
kTGH 2013:887
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6097
kMandarin píng
kPhonetic 1058*
kRSUnicode 149'.5
kTGHZ2013 285.130:píng
kTotalStrokes 7
kTraditionalVariant "評" U+8A55 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0882.010:píng