U+8C03 "调" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
调
U+8C03 "调" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to adjust," "to tune," "to mix," or "to mediate," and it also functions as a noun denoting "tone," "melody," or "key" in music. Commonly used in modern Chinese, it appears in words such as "调整" (adjustment), "调查" (investigation), and "调子" (tune or tone). This character belongs to the Han script family and is encoded in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, representing a core element of logographic writing shared across multiple East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8C03 |
| 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 | 调 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 调 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB0 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8C03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008C03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8c03 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27587D |
| kCangjie | IVBGR |
| kCantonese | diu6 |
| kDefinition | transfer, move, change; tune |
| kEACC | 27587D |
| kFourCornerCode | 3772 |
| kGB0 | 2187 |
| kHanYu | 63990.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | diào(390) tiáo(213) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63990.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3577 |
| kTGH | 2013:2123 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6148 |
| kMandarin | diào |
| kPhonetic | 80* |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 075.110:diào 366.070:tiáo |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "調" U+8ABF CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0248.120:diào 1140.020:tiáo |