U+8BCC "诌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8BCC "诌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in modern Mandarin, where it functions as a verb meaning "to fabricate" or "to make up," often in the context of concocting a story or speaking nonsense. It belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is classified under the radical for speech (讠), reflecting its association with verbal expression. The character appears in simplified Chinese scripts and is commonly encountered in colloquial phrases like "胡诌" (hú zhōu), which means to talk nonsense or ramble wildly. Its stroke count and structure derive from the traditional form 謅, and it is encoded for use in digital text to represent this specific communicative nuance.

General Properties

Code Point U+8BCC
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 诌
HTML Hex Encoding 诌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAF 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8BCC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008BCC
C/C++/Java Escape \u8bcc

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 29337A
kCangjie IVNSM
kCantonese zau1
kDefinition play with words, quip; talk nonsense
kEACC 29337A
kFourCornerCode 3777
kGB0 5463
kHanYu 63956.090
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63956.090
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-565F
kTGH 2013:3798
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6188
kMandarin zhōu
kPhonetic 234*
kRSUnicode 149'.5
kSMSZD2003Index 646.06
kTGHZ2013 481.120:zhōu
kTotalStrokes 7
kTraditionalVariant "謅" U+8B05 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1504.040:zhōu