U+8C2B "谫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8C2B "谫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "shallow" or "superficial," often used in classical and modern Chinese to describe something lacking depth, such as knowledge or understanding. It is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, encoded for consistent digital representation across East Asian languages. The character is composed of the radical for "speech" (讠) and the phonetic component "前" (qian), reflecting its semantic and sound structure. Its usage appears in literary contexts to convey modesty or criticism of superficiality, and it is relatively rare in everyday conversation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8C2B
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	谫
HTML Hex Encoding	谫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB0 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8C2B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008C2B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8c2b

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	47347B
kCangjie	IVTBH
kCantonese	zin2
kDefinition	shallow; stupid
kEACC	47347B
kFourCornerCode	3872
kGB0	5857
kHanYu	64015.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64015.010
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-5A59
kTGH	2013:7608
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6237
kMandarin	jiǎn
kRSUnicode	149'.11
kTGHZ2013	164.190:jiǎn
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"謭" U+8B2D CJK Unified Ideograph-# "譾" U+8B7E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0552.010:jiǎn