U+8BDD "话" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BDD "话" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "speech," "talk," "language," or "words," and it is widely used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. Composed from the radical for "speech" (讠) and the phonetic component "舌" (meaning "tongue"), it forms the core of common words like "电话" (telephone) and "说话" (to speak). This character represents a fundamental concept of verbal communication and is an essential element in East Asian texts, reflecting the cultural importance of spoken and written discourse.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BDD
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	话
HTML Hex Encoding	话
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAF 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BDD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BDD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bdd

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	275866
kCangjie	IVHJR
kCantonese	waa6
kDefinition	speech, talk, language; dialect
kEACC	275866
kFourCornerCode	3276
kGB0	2716
kHanYu	63965.070
kHanyuPinlu	huà(2332) hua(32)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63965.070
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-3B30
kTGH	2013:1296
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6114
kMandarin	huà
kRSUnicode	149'.6
kTGHZ2013	143.100:huà
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"話" U+8A71 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0484.040:huà