U+8C23 "谣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
谣
U+8C23 "谣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "rumor" or "ballad" in modern Standard Mandarin. It is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left, indicating its association with words or spoken language, and the phonetic component 䍃 on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation as yáo. Historically, the character carries dual connotations: it can refer to unfounded gossip or hearsay, as in the word 谣言 (yáoyán, "rumor"), as well as to folk songs or rhymes passed down orally, such as in 民谣 (mínyáo, "folk ballad"). This character is widely used in written Chinese, appearing in contexts ranging from journalism and social commentary to poetry and music.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8C23 |
| 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 | 谣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 谣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB0 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8C23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008C23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8c23 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275936 |
| kCangjie | IVBOU |
| kCantonese | jiu4 |
| kDefinition | sing; folksong, ballad; rumor |
| kEACC | 275936 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3277 |
| kGB0 | 5005 |
| kHanYu | 64007.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yáo(19) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64007.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5225 |
| kTGH | 2013:2796 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6202 |
| kMandarin | yáo |
| kPhonetic | 1597* |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.10 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 427.200:yáo |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "謠" U+8B20 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "謡" U+8B21 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1341.020:yáo |