U+98A0 "颠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
颠
U+98A0 "颠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "top," "summit," or "to jolt," and it often conveys the sense of something being overturned or toppling. In classical and modern Chinese usage, it appears in words like "颠覆" (to subvert or overturn) and can denote a peak or apex, as in "山颠" (mountain top). The character is composed of the radical 页 (page or head) combined with the phonetic component 真, reflecting its semantic link to the head or high point. It belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is commonly used in both literary and everyday contexts across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+98A0 |
| 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 | 颠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 颠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA2 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x98A0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000098A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u98a0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276054 |
| kCangjie | JCMBO |
| kCantonese | din1 |
| kDefinition | top, peak, summit; upset |
| kEACC | 276054 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4188 |
| kGB0 | 2163 |
| kHanYu | 74385.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | diān(49) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74385.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1410.451 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-355F |
| kTGH | 2013:3327 |
| kKangXi | 1410.451 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7351 |
| kMandarin | diān |
| kPhonetic | 63* |
| kRSUnicode | 181'.10 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 073.140:diān |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "顛" U+985B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0240.020:diān |