U+8BD7 "诗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8BD7 "诗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that translates to "poem" or "poetry" in English, representing the artistic and literary form of verse composition. As a standard component of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 寺 (temple) on the right, which together convey the concept of expressing feelings or ideas through structured language. This character is widely used in modern Chinese writing, including in terms like 诗人 (shīrén, meaning poet) and 诗歌 (shīgē, meaning poetry), reflecting its central role in East Asian cultural traditions that value lyrical expression and aesthetic refinement.

General Properties

Code Point U+8BD7
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 诗
HTML Hex Encoding 诗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAF 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8BD7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008BD7
C/C++/Java Escape \u8bd7

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 27585C
kCangjie IVGDI
kCantonese si1
kDefinition poetry; poem, verse, ode
kEACC 27585C
kFourCornerCode 3474
kGB0 4211
kHanYu 63961.060
kHanyuPinlu shī(152)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63961.060
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-4A2B
kTGH 2013:1288
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6108
kMandarin shī
kPhonetic 149*
kRSUnicode 149'.6
kTGHZ2013 334.030:shī
kTotalStrokes 8
kTraditionalVariant "詩" U+8A69 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1031.030:shī