U+8BE0 "诠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
诠
U+8BE0 "诠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "to explain," "to comment on," or "to annotate," as well as referring to ultimate truth or reason in philosophical contexts. It is composed of the radical for speech or words on the left and the phonetic component 全 on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation as "quán" in Mandarin. Historically, this character appears in classical texts such as the Zhuangzi, where it is used in the phrase "诠言" to denote thorough explanation or commentary. In modern usage, it is found in terms like 诠释 (quánshì), meaning "interpretation" or "explanation," and remains an important element in both literary and academic Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BE0 |
| 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 | 诠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 诠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAF 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BE0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8be0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275867 |
| kCangjie | IVOMG |
| kCantonese | cyun4 |
| kDefinition | explain, expound, comment on |
| kEACC | 275867 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3871.4 |
| kGB0 | 5825 |
| kHanYu | 63967.040 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63967.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5A39 |
| kTGH | 2013:4054 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6112 |
| kMandarin | quán |
| kPhonetic | 282* |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.6 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 309.120:quán |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "詮" U+8A6E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0949.020:quán |