U+8BE5 "该" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
该
U+8BE5 "该" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a common Chinese character (simplified form) that is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block and carries the meaning of "should," "ought to," or "to be due to," often functioning as an auxiliary verb in modern Mandarin to indicate necessity or obligation, as in sentences like "我应该去" meaning "I should go." In traditional Chinese, this character is written as 該, and it also conveys connotations related to "deserving" or "being one's turn," with its radical being 讠 (speech) in simplified form or 言 (speech) in traditional, reflecting its etymological connection to matters of verbal judgment or propriety.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BE5 |
| 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 | 该 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 该 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAF 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8be5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275859 |
| kCangjie | IVYVO |
| kCantonese | goi1 |
| kDefinition | should, ought to, need to |
| kEACC | 275859 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3078.2 |
| kGB0 | 2435 |
| kHanYu | 63971.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gāi(1057) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63971.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3843 |
| kTGH | 2013:1300 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6115 |
| kMandarin | gāi |
| kPhonetic | 490* |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.6 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 104.140:gāi |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "該" U+8A72 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0350.020:gāi |