U+8C2E "谮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8C2E "谮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to slander" or "to falsely accuse someone," often used in classical texts to describe the act of making insinuating or defamatory statements behind a person's back. Its structure combines the speech radical (讠) on the left, indicating communication or words, with a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation. In modern usage, the character appears in formal or literary contexts, and it retains its negative connotation of malicious gossip or unfounded accusations.

General Properties

Code Point U+8C2E
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 谮
HTML Hex Encoding 谮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB0 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8C2E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008C2E
C/C++/Java Escape \u8c2e

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 29344D
kCangjie IVMUA
kCantonese zam3
kDefinition to slander
kEACC 29344D
kFourCornerCode 3176
kGB0 5858
kHanYu 64018.070
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64018.070
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-5A5A
kTGH 2013:5818
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6220
kMandarin zèn
kRSUnicode 149'.12
kTGHZ2013 461.020:zèn
kTotalStrokes 14
kTraditionalVariant "譖" U+8B56 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1446.010:zèn