U+8BDE "诞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8BDE "诞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "birth" or "to be born," often used in contexts related to birthday celebrations, the concept of nativity, or the beginning of something significant. It is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 延 (yan, meaning "to extend" or "prolong") on the right, reflecting its historical usage in classical and modern Chinese to denote the act of coming into existence or the commemoration of such an event. This character appears frequently in terms like 诞生 (dànshēng, "to be born" or "birth") and 圣诞 (shèngdàn, "Christmas," literally "holy birth"), and is an integral part of written Chinese, Japanese (as a kanji), and occasionally Korean Hanja, where it carries similar meanings related to origins and emergence.

General Properties

Code Point U+8BDE
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 诞
HTML Hex Encoding 诞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAF 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8BDE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008BDE
C/C++/Java Escape \u8bde

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 275923
kCangjie IVNKV
kCantonese daan3
kDefinition bear children, give birth; birth
kEACC 275923
kFourCornerCode 3274
kGB0 2114
kHanYu 63966.010
kHanyuPinlu dàn(40)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63966.010
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-352E
kTGH 2013:1297
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6130
kMandarin dàn
kPhonetic 1578*
kRSUnicode 149'.6
kTGHZ2013 065.100:dàn
kTotalStrokes 8
kTraditionalVariant "誕" U+8A95 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0212.030:dàn