U+8C2F "谯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8C2F "谯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning a watchtower, a drum tower at a city gate, or a place name; it also functions as a surname. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, used across East Asian writing systems. In traditional Chinese culture, it often references structures used for military surveillance or timekeeping, such as the 谯楼 qiao lou or drum tower. Understanding its usage helps in interpreting historical texts, place names, and family names from the Sinosphere.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8C2F
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	谯
HTML Hex Encoding	谯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB0 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8C2F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008C2F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8c2f

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	293459
kCangjie	IVOGF
kCantonese	ciu4
kDefinition	tower; surname
kEACC	293459
kFourCornerCode	3073
kGB0	5859
kHanYu	64019.040
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64019.040
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-5A5B
kTGH	2013:5824
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6222
kMandarin	qiáo
kRSUnicode	149'.12
kTGHZ2013	300.050:qiáo
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"譙" U+8B59 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0921.090:qiáo 0922.061:qiào