U+8BF8 "诸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
诸
U+8BF8 "诸" CJK Unified Ideograph is a Chinese character that primarily functions as an adjective or determiner meaning "all" or "various" and is also used as a particle to refer to multiple entities, akin to "all the" or "every" in English. It is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 者 on the right, suggesting a connection to speech or classification. In classical and modern Chinese, "诸" appears in common compounds like 诸位 (zhūwèi, meaning "everyone" as a polite term of address) and 诸多 (zhūduō, meaning "a great many"). This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, reflecting its foundational role in written Chinese across historical and contemporary texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8BF8 |
| 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 | 诸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 诸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xAF 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8BF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008BF8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8bf8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27587B |
| kCangjie | IVJKA |
| kCantonese | zyu1 |
| kDefinition | various, all, these; surname |
| kEACC | 27587B |
| kFourCornerCode | 3476 |
| kGB0 | 5478 |
| kHanYu | 63983.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhū(24) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63983.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-566E |
| kTGH | 2013:2110 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6175 |
| kMandarin | zhū |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 483.180:zhū |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "諸" U+8AF8 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1508.020:zhū |