U+8BFE "课" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BFE "课" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a lesson, class, or subject of study, and is commonly used in educational contexts. It combines the radical 讠 (言), meaning speech or words, suggesting verbal instruction, with the phonetic component 果 (guǒ), which hints at its pronunciation (kè) in Mandarin. This character appears frequently in compounds such as 课程 (kèchéng, curriculum), 课本 (kèběn, textbook), and 上课 (shàngkè, to attend class), reflecting its integral role in academic and pedagogical settings within the written Chinese language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BFE
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	课
HTML Hex Encoding	课
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAF 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BFE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BFE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bfe

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	27587C
kCangjie	IVWD
kCantonese	fo3
kDefinition	lesson; course; classwork
kEACC	27587C
kFourCornerCode	3679
kGB0	3146
kHanYu	63986.010
kHanyuPinlu	kè(341)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63986.010
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-3F4E
kTGH	2013:2120
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6143
kMandarin	kè
kRSUnicode	149'.8
kTGHZ2013	196.110:kè
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"課" U+8AB2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0643.030:kè