U+8BDB "诛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8BDB "诛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to put to death" or "to execute," often carrying the connotation of punishment or condemnation for wrongdoing, and it is also used in the sense of "to blame" or "to reprimand." This character is composed of two components: the radical 言 (yán, meaning "speech" or "words") on the left, and 朱 (zhū, meaning "vermilion" or "red") on the right, with the phonetic element 朱 also contributing to its pronunciation as "zhū" in Mandarin. Historically and culturally, "诛" is frequently encountered in classical Chinese texts, idioms, and legal contexts, such as in the expression 口诛笔伐 (kǒu zhū bǐ fá), which describes verbally condemning or launching written attacks against someone, reflecting its deep roots in both justice and rhetoric.

General Properties

Code Point U+8BDB
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 诛
HTML Hex Encoding 诛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAF 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8BDB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008BDB
C/C++/Java Escape \u8bdb

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 275862
kCangjie IVHJD
kCantonese zyu1
kDefinition execute, kill, put to death; punish
kEACC 275862
kFourCornerCode 3579
kGB0 5479
kHanYu 63965.010
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63965.010
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-566F
kTGH 2013:4051
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6121
kMandarin zhū
kPhonetic 260*
kRSUnicode 149'.6
kTGHZ2013 483.130:zhū
kTotalStrokes 8
kTraditionalVariant "誅" U+8A85 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1507.020:zhū