U+9A8C "验" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9A8C "验" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of "to examine," "to test," or "to verify," and it is commonly used in modern Mandarin Chinese. This character is composed of a left radical "马" (horse) and a right phonetic component "佥," which together suggest its historical association with inspecting or testing horses, though its usage has broadened over time. It appears in words such as "经验" (experience) and "试验" (experiment), and it is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. The character is written with 9 strokes in traditional Chinese typography and is widely employed in formal and technical contexts across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+9A8C
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 验
HTML Hex Encoding 验
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xAA 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9A8C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009A8C
C/C++/Java Escape \u9a8c

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 27614D
kCangjie NMOMM
kCantonese jim6
kDefinition test, examine, inspect; verify
kEACC 27614D
kFourCornerCode 7811
kGB0 4973
kHanYu 74558.110
kHanyuPinlu yàn(792)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74558.110
kIRGKangXi 1447.241
kIRG_GSource G0-5169
kTGH 2013:2152
kKangXi 1447.241
kMainlandTelegraph 7526
kMandarin yàn
kPhonetic 182*
kRSUnicode 187'.7
kSMSZD2003Index 787.04
kTGHZ2013 424.090:yàn
kTotalStrokes 10
kTraditionalVariant "驗" U+9A57 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1333.040:yàn