U+8C1A "谚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
谚
U+8C1A "谚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "proverb," "saying," or "maxim," and is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its radical is "言" (speech or words), reflecting its association with spoken or written expressions of wisdom and cultural teachings. The character appears in various classic and modern texts, often within the compound word "谚语" (yànyǔ) to denote a short, traditional saying that conveys a general truth or piece of advice. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encodes a comprehensive set of characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems for digital representation and cross-platform use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8C1A |
| 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 | 谚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 谚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB0 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8C1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008C1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8c1a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275926 |
| kCangjie | IVYHH |
| kCantonese | jin6 |
| kDefinition | proverb, maxim |
| kEACC | 275926 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3072 |
| kGB0 | 4972 |
| kHanYu | 64001.030 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64001.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5168 |
| kTGH | 2013:2467 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6176 |
| kMandarin | yàn |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.9 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 424.110:yàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "諺" U+8AFA CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1331.070:yàn |