U+8C19 "谙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8C19 "谙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means to be familiar with, to know well, or to have a deep understanding of something, often through experience or long exposure. It is composed of the speech radical (讠, a simplified form of 言) on the left, suggesting language or knowledge, and the phonetic component 音 (yīn, meaning sound or tone) on the right. This character is commonly used in classical and modern Chinese literature to describe someone who is well versed or seasoned in a particular field, such as in the phrase 谙熟 (ānshú), meaning to be thoroughly acquainted with a subject.

General Properties

Code Point U+8C19
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 谙
HTML Hex Encoding 谙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB0 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8C19
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008C19
C/C++/Java Escape \u8c19

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 293344
kCangjie IVYTA
kCantonese am1
kDefinition versed in, fully acquainted with
kEACC 293344
kFourCornerCode 3076
kGB0 5847
kHanYu 64001.010
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64001.010
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-5A4F
kTGH 2013:5007
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6173
kMandarin ān
kRSUnicode 149'.9
kTGHZ2013 003.110:ān
kTotalStrokes 11
kTraditionalVariant "諳" U+8AF3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0008.020:ān