U+8FA9 "辩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
辩
U+8FA9 "辩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to argue," "debate," or "discuss," and it is commonly used in formal and intellectual contexts to signify the act of disputing or reasoning through a topic. Its structure combines a semantic component related to speech or words, often indicating verbal exchange, with a phonetic element that provides a clue to its pronunciation. In modern Chinese, it appears in words such as "辩论" (biànlùn, debate) and "辩护" (biànhù, defend or plead), and it is also employed in philosophical or legal discourse to emphasize analytical discussion. This character reflects the cultural importance placed on rhetoric and reasoned argument within Chinese communication traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8FA9 |
| 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 | 辩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 辩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBE 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8FA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008FA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8fa9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275B61 |
| kCangjie | YJIVJ |
| kCantonese | bin6 |
| kDefinition | dispute, argue, debate, discuss |
| kEACC | 275B61 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0044 |
| kGB0 | 1771 |
| kHanYu | 64042.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | biàn(165) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 64042.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1252.021 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3167 |
| kTGH | 2013:3372 |
| kKangXi | 1252.021 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6589 |
| kMandarin | biàn |
| kRSUnicode | 160.9 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 022.030:biàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "辯" U+8FAF CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0065.110:biàn |