U+8C12 "谒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
谒
U+8C12 "谒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both traditional and simplified scripts, primarily meaning "to pay one's respects," "to visit (a superior)," or "to address formally" in classical and modern contexts. Its radical is 讠（言）"speech" on the left, indicating a connection to words or speaking, and its phonetic component is 曷. This character often appears in formal or historical language, such as in terms like "拜谒" (to pay a formal visit or homage). It is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block and carries the Unicode codepoint U+8C12, commonly used in East Asian text encoding systems to represent this specific logogram.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8C12 |
| 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 | 谒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 谒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB0 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8C12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008C12 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8c12 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27592C |
| kCangjie | IVAPV |
| kCantonese | jit3 |
| kDefinition | visit, pay respects |
| kEACC | 27592C |
| kFourCornerCode | 3672 |
| kGB0 | 5843 |
| kHanYu | 63997.050 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63997.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5A4B |
| kTGH | 2013:5002 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6181 |
| kMandarin | yè |
| kPhonetic | 510* |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.9 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 430.110:yè |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "謁" U+8B01 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1348.040:yè |