U+9ED8 "默" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
默
U+9ED8 "默" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning silent, still, or wordless, and is commonly used in East Asian languages like Mandarin and Japanese. It is composed of the radical 黑 (black) on the left and the phonetic component 犬 (dog) on the right, reflecting an ancient cultural association of a barking dog symbolizing noise or disturbance. This ideograph appears in significant terms such as 沉默 (chénmò, meaning silence) and 默默 (mòmò, meaning quietly or silently), and it carries connotations of peaceful stillness or taciturnity. In Unicode, it is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a shared writing system across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9ED8 |
| 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 | 默 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 默 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBB 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9ED8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009ED8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9ed8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C071 |
| kCCCII | 216268 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-733C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-733C |
| kCangjie | WFIK |
| kCantonese | mak6 |
| kCihaiT | 1562.303 |
| kCowles | 2611 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2052.240 |
| kDefinition | silent; quiet, still; dark |
| kEACC | 216268 |
| kFanqie | 莫北 |
| kFenn | 831E |
| kFennIndex | 347.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6333.4 |
| kGB0 | 3612 |
| kGB1 | 3612 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0904d |
| kHangul | 묵:0E |
| kHanYu | 74744.110 |
| kHanyuPinlu | mò(199) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74744.110:mò |
| kHKGlyph | 4724 |
| kIICore | AGTHMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2052.240 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74744.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1519.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-442C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C071 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6054 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DBE7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5979 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-733C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6D30 |
| kJapanese | モク ボク だまる |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010:U+9ED9 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:3352 |
| kJapaneseKun | DAMARU |
| kJapaneseOn | MOKU |
| kJis0 | 6452 |
| kKangXi | 1519.110 |
| kKarlgren | 68 |
| kKorean | MWUK |
| kLau | 2083 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7817 |
| kMandarin | mò |
| kMatthews | 4388 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1770 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029901 MJ029901:E0101 MJ029902:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 48063 48063:E0101 |
| kNelson | 2796 5405 |
| kPhonetic | 431 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5645+94.4.12 C+5645+203.12.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 203.4 |
| kSBGY | 529.52 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+563F<kFenn U+9ED9 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 825.10 420.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | mò粵mak6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7817 |
| kTang | *mək |
| kTGHZ2013 | 257.110:mò |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | mặc |
| kXerox | 251:107 |
| kXHC1983 | 0803.040:mò |