U+8BF4 "说" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
说
U+8BF4 "说" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to speak," "to say," "to talk," or "to explain." It is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left, indicating its connection to language, and the phonetic component 兑 on the right, which hints at its pronunciation as "shuō" in Mandarin. This character is widely used in modern and classical Chinese texts, appearing in common words like 说话 (to speak) and 说明 (to explain), and it also appears in the historical concepts of "shuōhuà" and narrative literature, reflecting its fundamental role in communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BF4 |
| 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 | 说 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 说 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAF 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BF4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BF4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8bf4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275869 |
| kCangjie | IVCRU |
| kCantonese | syut3 |
| kDefinition | speak, say, talk; scold, upbraid |
| kEACC | 275869 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3871 |
| kGB0 | 4321 |
| kHanYu | 63979.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shuō(10245) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63979.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4B35 |
| kTGH | 2013:1717 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6141 |
| kMandarin | shuō |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.7 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 344.140:shuì 345.070:shuō |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "說" U+8AAA CJK Unified Ideograph-# "説" U+8AAC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1080.010:shuì 1082.010:shuō 1428.010:yuè |