U+8C0E "谎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8C0E "谎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "lie," "falsehood," or "to deceive," and it is composed of the radical 讠 (言, meaning "speech" or "words") combined with the phonetic component 荒, which itself conveys the idea of desolation or absurdity. This character is used in modern standard Mandarin Chinese to form common words like 说谎 (shuōhuǎng), meaning "to tell a lie," and 谎言 (huǎngyán), meaning "a lie" or "a false statement." It plays a significant role in everyday communication, literature, and formal writing in Chinese-speaking communities, where it denotes both the act of deception and the result of that act. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to ensure consistent representation across digital platforms, making it an essential part of the global text and language processing systems for East Asian scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+8C0E
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 谎
HTML Hex Encoding 谎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB0 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8C0E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008C0E
C/C++/Java Escape \u8c0e

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 275935
kCangjie IVTYU
kCantonese fong1
kDefinition lie
kEACC 275935
kFourCornerCode 3471
kGB0 2749
kHanYu 63995.030
kHanyuPinlu huǎng(21)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63995.030
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-3B51
kTGH 2013:2461
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6192
kMandarin huǎng
kRSUnicode 149'.9
kTGHZ2013 147.040:huǎng
kTotalStrokes 11
kTraditionalVariant "謊" U+8B0A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0497.180:huǎng