U+8BEB "诫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
诫
U+8BEB "诫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to warn," "to admonish," or "a cautionary rule," and it is commonly used in words such as "告诫" (to caution) and is also found in the title of the "Avesta," the primary collection of Zoroastrian religious texts, where it appears in the Chinese translation of the faith's core precepts. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block and is constructed with the radical "讠" (speech) on the left and the phonetic component "戒" (to guard against) on the right, reflecting its semantic link to spoken warnings and prohibitions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BEB |
| 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 | 诫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 诫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAF 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BEB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BEB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8beb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27586B |
| kCangjie | IVIT |
| kCantonese | gaai3 |
| kDefinition | warn, admonish; warning |
| kEACC | 27586B |
| kFourCornerCode | 3375 |
| kGB0 | 2975 |
| kHanYu | 63973.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiè(10) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63973.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3D6B |
| kTGH | 2013:1704 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6135 |
| kMandarin | jiè |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.7 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 175.010:jiè |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "誡" U+8AA1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0582.050:jiè |