U+8BC8 "诈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
诈
U+8BC8 "诈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "to cheat," "to deceive," or "to pretend," and it belongs to the East Asian logographic writing system used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is composed of the radical "讠" (speech or words) on the left and the phonetic component "乍" on the right, indicating both meaning and pronunciation. This character appears frequently in words related to fraud, falsehood, or feigned behavior, such as "欺诈" (deception or fraud) and "诈骗" (swindle or scam). As a standard component of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, it is encoded for digital text representation across various platforms and languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BC8 |
| 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 | 诈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 诈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAF 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8bc8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275854 |
| kCangjie | IVOS |
| kCantonese | zaa3 |
| kDefinition | cheat, defraud, swindle; trick |
| kEACC | 275854 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3871 |
| kGB0 | 5309 |
| kHanYu | 63955.010 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63955.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5529 |
| kTGH | 2013:893 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6094 |
| kMandarin | zhà |
| kPhonetic | 10* |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.5 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 463.030:zhà |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "詐" U+8A50 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1449.020:zhà |