U+8FA8 "辨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

辨

U+8FA8 "辨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to distinguish, differentiate, or discern, and it is composed of two 辛 (bitter or pungent) components flanking a central element that suggests division or judgment. It appears in classical and modern Chinese texts, often carrying the sense of making a clear separation between things, such as in the word 辨別 (biànbié), meaning "to distinguish." In Japanese, it is used similarly as a kanji with the same core meaning of discernment or discrimination. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block in Unicode, which standardizes East Asian scripts for digital representation, and it typically appears in regular script with a Kangxi radical classification under 辛 (bitter).

General Properties

Code Point	U+8FA8
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	辨
HTML Hex Encoding	辨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xBE 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8FA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008FA8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8fa8

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

kBigFive	BFEB
kCCCII	215B5E
kCNS1986	1-7255
kCNS1992	1-7255
kCangjie	YJILJ
kCantonese	bin6
kCihaiT	1309.602
kCowles	3296
kDaeJaweon	1731.120
kDefinition	distinguish, discriminate
kEACC	215B5E
kFanqie	符蹇蒲莧
kFenn	157C
kFennIndex	409.04
kFourCornerCode	0044.1
kGB0	1770
kGB1	1770
kGradeLevel	2
kGSR	0219b
kHangul	변:0E
kHanYu	64041.060
kHanyuPinlu	biàn(49)
kHanyuPinyin	64041.060:biàn,biǎn,bàn,piàn
kHKGlyph	4073
kIICore	AGTHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1731.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	64041.060
kIRGKangXi	1251.200
kIRG_GSource	G0-3166
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BFEB
kIRG_JSource	J0-517E
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DDF2
kIRG_KSource	K0-5C29
kIRG_TSource	T1-7255
kIRG_VSource	V1-6922
kJapanese	ベンハンヘンわきまえるわける
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:3371
kJapaneseKun	WAKERU WAKIMAERU
kJapaneseOn	BEN HEN
kJis0	4994
kKangXi	1251.200
kKorean	PYEN
kMainlandTelegraph	6587
kMandarin	biàn
kMatthews	5240
kMeyerWempe	2363
kMojiJoho	MJ025739 MJ025739:E0101 MJ059380:E0102 MJ058833:E0103
kMorohashi	38657 38657:E0101
kNelson	4648
kPhonetic	1045
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4277+160.7.9
kRSUnicode	160.9
kSBGY	292.50 406.11
kSemanticVariant	U+8FAF<kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index	690.14
kSMSZD2003Readings	biàn粵bin6
kTaiwanTelegraph	6587
kTGHZ2013	022.020:biàn
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	biện
kXerox	245:053
kXHC1983	0065.100:biàn