U+8C36 "谶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8C36 "谶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph set, traditionally meaning a prophecy, omen, or divinatory text, often associated with ancient Chinese predictive writings or cryptic statements that foretell future events. In historical contexts, such "chen" prophecies were frequently recorded in oracles, inscriptions, or literature to interpret fate or political change. This character is composed of the radical for speech or words on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its linguistic function in written Chinese. It is included in the Unicode standard to support digital representation of classical and modern Chinese texts, enabling cross-platform use in documents, web content, and software.

General Properties

Code Point U+8C36
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 谶
HTML Hex Encoding 谶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB0 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8C36
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008C36
C/C++/Java Escape \u8c36

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 27594D
kCangjie IVOIM
kCantonese cam3
kDefinition prophecy, hint, omen
kEACC 27594D
kFourCornerCode 3375
kGB0 5863
kHanYu 64032.050
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 64032.050
kIRGKangXi 1188.181
kIRG_GSource G0-5A5F
kTGH 2013:6416
kKangXi 1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph 6244
kMandarin chèn
kPhonetic 183*
kRSUnicode 149'.17
kTGHZ2013 042.160:chèn
kTotalStrokes 19
kTraditionalVariant "讖" U+8B96 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0134.010:chèn