U+8BED "语" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BED "语" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "language," "speech," or "word." It is composed of the radical 讠 (meaning "speech") on the left and the phonetic component 吾 (wú) on the right. This character appears in common words such as 语言 (yǔyán, meaning "language") and 英语 (Yīngyǔ, meaning "English language"). As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it belongs to a standardized set of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters used across East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BED
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	语
HTML Hex Encoding	语
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAF 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BED
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BED
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bed

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	27586C
kCangjie	IVMMR
kCantonese	jyu5
kDefinition	language, words; saying, expression
kEACC	27586C
kFourCornerCode	3176
kGB0	5179
kHanYu	63975.010
kHanyuPinlu	yǔ(261)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63975.010
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-536F
kTGH	2013:1707
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6133
kMandarin	yǔ
kPhonetic	947*
kRSUnicode	149'.7
kTGHZ2013	447.210:yǔ
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"語" U+8A9E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1411.060:yǔ 1414.040:yù