U+8BE7 "诧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
诧
U+8BE7 "诧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to be surprised" or "to be astonished." It is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 宅 (zhái) on the right, effectively linking the concept of verbal expression to a sense of shock or wonder. In modern Mandarin, this character is commonly used in words like 诧异 (chàyì), meaning "amazement" or "startlement," and it appears in classical texts as well as contemporary writing to convey a sudden emotional reaction of surprise. The character falls under the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, representing one of the many logograms shared across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BE7 |
| 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 | 诧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 诧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAF 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BE7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BE7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8be7 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275858 |
| kCangjie | IVJHP |
| kCantonese | caa3 |
| kDefinition | be surprised, be shocked |
| kEACC | 275858 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3371 |
| kGB0 | 1879 |
| kHanYu | 63972.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chà(38) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63972.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-326F |
| kTGH | 2013:4057 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6109 |
| kMandarin | chà |
| kPhonetic | 17* |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.6 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 035.170:chà |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "詫" U+8A6B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0115.010:chà |