U+8BD7 "诗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
诗
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
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 |