U+8C34 "谴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8C34 "谴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to reprimand," "to blame," or "to rebuke," and it is commonly used in formal or classical contexts to express a severe scolding or censure. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and has a radical of 讠 (speech) on the left, indicating its connection to spoken or written expression, with a right side that provides phonetic cues. In modern usage, it appears in words like "谴责" (qiǎnzé), meaning "to condemn" or "to denounce," and is often found in news reports or legal language to describe official criticism or moral reproach. The character is also used in Japanese as part of kanji vocabulary, though less frequently, and it carries a formal, authoritative tone across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+8C34
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 谴
HTML Hex Encoding 谴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB0 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8C34
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008C34
C/C++/Java Escape \u8c34

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 275947
kCangjie IVYLR
kCantonese hin2
kDefinition reprimand, scold, abuse
kEACC 275947
kFourCornerCode 3573
kGB0 3920
kHanYu 64024.030
kHanyuPinlu qiǎn(13)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64024.030
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-4734
kTGH 2013:3307
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6232
kMandarin qiǎn
kPhonetic 469*
kRSUnicode 149'.13
kTGHZ2013 297.020:qiǎn
kTotalStrokes 15
kTraditionalVariant "譴" U+8B74 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0915.040:qiǎn