U+8BC8 "诈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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