U+8C08 "谈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8C08 "谈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to talk," "to discuss," or "to converse," and it is commonly used in both classical and modern Chinese writing. This character is composed of a radical element on the left side, the "言" (speech) radical, which signifies words or language, and a phonetic component on the right side, "炎" (flame), though the pronunciation has shifted over time from its ancient roots. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, "谈" is encoded for digital text representation across various languages, including Japanese (where it is used with similar meanings) and Korean (as "담" or "dam"). Its frequent appearance in everyday vocabulary, such as "谈话" (conversation) and "谈论" (to discuss), underscores its importance for expressing verbal communication in written form.

General Properties

Code Point U+8C08
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 谈
HTML Hex Encoding 谈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB0 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8C08
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008C08
C/C++/Java Escape \u8c08

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 275879
kCangjie IVFF
kCantonese taam4
kDefinition talk; conversation; surname
kEACC 275879
kFourCornerCode 3978
kGB0 4424
kHanYu 63992.080
kHanyuPinlu tán(693)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63992.080
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-4C38
kTGH 2013:2127
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6151
kMandarin tán
kPhonetic 1568*
kRSUnicode 149'.8
kTGHZ2013 358.050:tán
kTotalStrokes 10
kTraditionalVariant "談" U+8AC7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1114.020:tán