U+8BE4 "诤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
诤
U+8BE4 "诤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that conveys the meaning of "to admonish" or "to remonstrate," often with the nuance of offering critical advice or correction to a superior. It is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left, indicating its connection to language or speaking, and the phonetic component 争 (zheng) on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. In classical and modern Chinese, this character is used in contexts such as 诤言 (zhengyan), meaning "frank advice," or 诤友 (zhengyou), referring to a friend who is willing to give honest, sometimes uncomfortable, counsel. Historically, it carries a respectful connotation of speaking the truth for moral or official rectitude.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BE4 |
| 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 | 诤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 诤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAF 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8be4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 293336 |
| kCangjie | IVNSD |
| kCantonese | zaang3 |
| kDefinition | to expostulate; to remonstrate |
| kEACC | 293336 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3775 |
| kGB0 | 5826 |
| kHanYu | 63970.010 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63970.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5A3A |
| kTGH | 2013:4056 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6154 |
| kMandarin | zhèng |
| kPhonetic | 32* |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 648.08 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 474.050:zhèng |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "諍" U+8ACD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1478.040:zhèng |