U+8BD9 "诙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BD9 "诙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means humorous, witty, or jesting, often seen in the context of language that is light-hearted or teasing. It is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left, indicating its connection to words or speaking, and the phonetic component 灰 (hui, meaning ash or gray) on the right. Commonly used in modern Chinese, this character appears in words like 诙谐 (huixie), which translates to "humorous" or "bantering," and has been part of written Chinese for centuries, reflecting its role in describing a playful or ironic tone in both literature and everyday conversation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BD9
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	诙
HTML Hex Encoding	诙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAF 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BD9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BD9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bd9

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	27585F
kCangjie	IVKF
kCantonese	fui1
kDefinition	tease, joke with; ridicule, mock
kEACC	27585F
kFourCornerCode	3478
kGB0	5822
kHanYu	63963.030
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63963.030
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-5A36
kTGH	2013:4043
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6117
kMandarin	huī
kPhonetic	394*
kRSUnicode	149'.6
kTGHZ2013	147.110:huī
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"詼" U+8A7C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0499.060:huī