U+8BDC "诜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BDC "诜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that functions primarily as a component in written Chinese, often used in classical or literary contexts. Its meaning relates to the concept of "many" or "numerous," derived from its radical "言" (words or speech) combined with the phonetic element "先" (first or before), though in modern usage it appears less frequently in everyday vocabulary. This character is encoded under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which standardizes East Asian script characters for digital representation, and it finds occasional application in personal names or historical texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BDC
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	诜
HTML Hex Encoding	诜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAF 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BDC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BDC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bdc

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	29325E
kCangjie	IVHGU
kCantonese	san1
kDefinition	inquire, question; numerous
kEACC	29325E
kFourCornerCode	3471
kGB0	5823
kHanYu	63965.041
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63965.041
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-5A37
kTGH	2013:4052
kKangXi	1188.181
kMandarin	shēn
kRSUnicode	149'.6
kTGHZ2013	330.070:shēn
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"詵" U+8A75 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1017.080:shēn