U+8C01 "谁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8C01 "谁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional and simplified Chinese character that primarily means "who" or "whom," functioning as an interrogative pronoun in Mandarin Chinese. It is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 隹 (a short-tailed bird) on the right, reflecting its logographic structure common in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) scripts. In Japanese, this character is used in kanji as "だれ" (dare) with the same meaning, and it may appear in Korean hanja as "수" (su) in historical or literary contexts, though its modern usage is less frequent. The character is encoded in the Unicode standard to ensure consistent representation across digital platforms, preserving its role in conveying inquiries about identity in written East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+8C01
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 谁
HTML Hex Encoding 谁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB0 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8C01
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008C01
C/C++/Java Escape \u8c01

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 275922
kCangjie IVOG
kCantonese seoi4
kDefinition who? whom? whose? anyone?
kEACC 275922
kFourCornerCode 3071
kGB0 4313
kHanYu 63987.110
kHanyuPinlu shuí(1065)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63987.110
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-4B2D
kTGH 2013:2122
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6142
kMandarin shéi
kRSUnicode 149'.8
kTGHZ2013 329.160:shéi 344.120:shuí
kTotalStrokes 10
kTraditionalVariant "誰" U+8AB0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1015.020:shéi 1074.030:shuí