U+8C1C "谜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8C1C "谜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "riddle," "puzzle," or "mystery," and is frequently used in compound words such as "谜语" meaning riddle or "谜底" meaning the answer to a riddle. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block in the Unicode standard, which encodes characters for the shared written languages of East Asia. The character is composed of two radicals: the left side is the "言" (speech) radical, reflecting its connection to spoken or written language, and the right side is "迷" (to be lost or confused), which together convey the concept of something that confuses or obscures understanding, requiring mental effort to solve. In modern usage, "谜" not only denotes literal riddles but also appears in metaphorical contexts, such as describing enigmatic situations or unsolved problems.

General Properties

Code Point U+8C1C
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 谜
HTML Hex Encoding 谜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB0 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8C1C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008C1C
C/C++/Java Escape \u8c1c

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 275933
kCangjie IVYFD
kCantonese mai4
kDefinition riddle, conundrum; puzzle
kEACC 275933
kFourCornerCode 3973
kGB0 3553
kHanYu 64001.090
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64001.090
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-4355
kTGH 2013:2468
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6193
kMandarin
kRSUnicode 149'.9
kTGHZ2013 249.160:mí
kTotalStrokes 11
kTraditionalVariant "謎" U+8B0E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0774.050:mèi 0781.010:mí