U+8C24 "谤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
谤
U+8C24 "谤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to slander," "to defame," or "to speak ill of someone." Composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left and the phonetic component 旁 (páng) on the right, it conveys the idea of harmful or false verbal accusations. In classical and modern Chinese, this character appears in formal and legal contexts, often associated with damaging someone's reputation through spoken or written words. It is used in phrases such as 诽谤 (fěibàng) meaning "slander" or "libel," and 谤言 (bàngyán) meaning "defamatory remarks," reflecting its role in discussions of ethics, law, and interpersonal conflict.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8C24 |
| 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 | 谤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 谤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB0 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8C24 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008C24 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8c24 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275931 |
| kCangjie | IVYBS |
| kCantonese | pong3 |
| kDefinition | slander, libel |
| kEACC | 275931 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3072 |
| kGB0 | 1689 |
| kHanYu | 64008.050 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64008.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3079 |
| kTGH | 2013:2797 |
| kKangXi | 1188.181 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6196 |
| kMandarin | bàng |
| kPhonetic | 1081* |
| kRSUnicode | 149'.10 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 011.120:bàng |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "謗" U+8B17 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0034.060:bàng |