U+8BCE "诎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BCE "诎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to bend" or "to yield" and is used in classical and modern Chinese to convey the idea of being subdued or compromising, often in a physical or metaphorical sense. It is composed of the radical for speech (讠) on the left and the phonetic component 出 on the right, indicating its pronunciation as "qū" in Mandarin. This character appears in ancient texts such as the "Book of Rites" and is sometimes employed in philosophical contexts to describe a state of retreat or subjugation, contrasting with concepts of strength or uprightness.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BCE
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	诎
HTML Hex Encoding	诎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAF 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BCE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BCE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bce

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	29323B
kCangjie	IVUU
kCantonese	wat1
kDefinition	bend, stoop, crouch; to yield
kEACC	29323B
kFourCornerCode	3277
kGB0	5816
kHanYu	63959.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63959.010
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-5A30
kTGH	2013:6627
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6099
kMandarin	qū
kRSUnicode	149'.5
kTGHZ2013	307.050:qū
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"詘" U+8A58 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0944.020:qū