U+8C04 "谄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8C04 "谄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to flatter, fawn upon, or ingratiate oneself with someone in a servile manner. It is composed of the radical 讠, which signifies speech or language, combined with the phonetic component 臽, and is commonly found in classical and modern Chinese texts to convey the concept of sycophantic or obsequious behavior. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, encoded in Unicode to represent a shared writing system across these East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8C04
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	谄
HTML Hex Encoding	谄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB0 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8C04
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008C04
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8c04

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	275921
kCangjie	IVNHX
kCantonese	cim2
kDefinition	flatter, truckle, toady
kEACC	275921
kFourCornerCode	3777
kGB0	5838
kHanYu	63990.070
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63990.070
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-5A46
kTGH	2013:4677
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6149
kMandarin	chǎn
kPhonetic	421*
kRSUnicode	149'.8
kTGHZ2013	037.160:chǎn
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"諂" U+8AC2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0119.060:chǎn