U+8BC7 "诇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+8BC7 "诇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily functions as a verb in classical and modern contexts, meaning to spy, to reconnoiter, or to secretly investigate someone or something, often carrying connotations of espionage or discreet inquiry. It is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left, indicating a relation to language or communication, and the phonetic component 冋 on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation as "xiòng" or "jiǒng" in Mandarin. Although not a frequently used character in everyday writing, it appears in historical texts, military terminology, and literature related to intelligence gathering. Its inclusion in the basic CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set under Unicode ensures proper digital representation across systems, supporting the preservation of this specialized term for scholarly and linguistic purposes.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
诇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
诇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE8 0xAF 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x8BC7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00008BC7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u8bc7 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII |
293237 |
| kCangjie |
IVBR |
| kCantonese |
gwing2 |
| kDefinition |
to spy; to give information; shrewd |
| kFourCornerCode |
3772.0 |
| kGB8 |
9484 |
| kHanYu |
63954.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
63954.070 |
| kIRGKangXi |
1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G8-7E74 |
| kTGH |
2013:6625 |
| kKangXi |
1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph |
9287 |
| kMandarin |
xiòng |
| kRSUnicode |
149'.5 |
| kTGHZ2013 |
410.110:xiòng |
| kTotalStrokes |
7 |
| kTraditionalVariant |
"詗" U+8A57 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
G |
| kXHC1983 |
1295.030:xiòng |