U+8C20 "谠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
谠
U+8C20 "谠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese Han character that primarily means "upright" or "honest" in the sense of straightforward speech or frank advice. It is composed of the radical for "speech" (讠) on the left and the phonetic component "党" on the right, and it is often used in classical or formal contexts to describe candid, righteous counsel, particularly in political or moral discussions. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which standardizes characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, and it appears in historical texts as well as in modern usage within certain compound words or idioms emphasizing integrity and directness.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8C20 |
| 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 | 谠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 谠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB0 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8C20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008C20 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8c20 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 293537 |
| kCangjie | IVFBU |
| kCantonese | dong2 |
| kDefinition | counsel, advice; speak out |
| kEACC | 293537 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3971 |
| kGB0 | 5852 |
| kHanYu | 64005.080 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64005.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5A54 |
| kTGH | 2013:5310 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6249 |
| kMandarin | dǎng |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 654.11 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 066.150:dǎng |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "讜" U+8B9C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0216.010:dǎng |