U+8BEF "误" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8BEF "误" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character pronounced "wù" in Mandarin and carries the primary meaning of "mistake," "error," or "to miss." It is commonly used in modern Chinese language within words such as "错误" (cuòwù, meaning mistake or error) and "误会" (wùhuì, meaning misunderstanding). The character is composed of the radical 讠 (言, yán, representing speech or words) on the left, and the phonetic component 吴 (wú) on the right, reflecting both a semantic connection to verbal communication and a phonetic clue to its pronunciation. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block in the Unicode standard, enabling its representation across digital platforms for texts in East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+8BEF
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 误
HTML Hex Encoding 误
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xAF 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8BEF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008BEF
C/C++/Java Escape \u8bef

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 275871
kCangjie IVRMK
kCantonese ng6
kDefinition err, make mistake; interfere
kEACC 275871
kFourCornerCode 3678
kGB0 4683
kHanYu 63976.040
kHanyuPinlu wù(478) wu(33)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63976.040
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-4E73
kTGH 2013:1714
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6137
kMandarin
kPhonetic 948*
kRSUnicode 149'.7
kTGHZ2013 390.060:wù
kTotalStrokes 9
kTraditionalVariant "誤" U+8AA4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1223.070:wù