U+8BE1 "诡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BE1 "诡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "deceitful," "crafty," or "sly," and it often carries a connotation of trickery or guile in both classical and modern usage. It is a simplified form of the traditional character "詭," and its components include the "speech" radical (讠), which hints at its association with deceptive words or cunning schemes. In common Chinese phrases, it appears in words like "诡计" meaning "scheme" or "trick," and "诡异" meaning "strange" or "eerie," reflecting its dual emphasis on deliberate deception and an uncanny, unsettling quality.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BE1
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	诡
HTML Hex Encoding	诡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAF 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BE1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BE1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8be1

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	275863
kCangjie	IVNMU
kCantonese	gwai2
kDefinition	deceive, cheat, defraud; sly
kEACC	275863
kFourCornerCode	3771
kGB0	2578
kHanYu	63968.020
kHanyuPinlu	guǐ(15)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63968.020
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-396E
kTGH	2013:1298
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6111
kMandarin	guǐ
kPhonetic	959*
kRSUnicode	149'.6
kTGHZ2013	124.130:guǐ
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"詭" U+8A6D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0420.020:guǐ