U+805E "聞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+805E "聞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (kanji in Japanese, hanja in Korean) that primarily means "to hear," "to listen," or "to ask," and historically conveys the sense of information or news received through hearing. It is composed of the radical "耳" (ear) on the inside, suggesting auditory perception, and the outer enclosure "門" (gate), often interpreted as sounds entering through a gate. This character is widely used in East Asian languages, appearing in words like the Japanese "聞く" (kiku, to listen) and the Chinese "新聞" (xinwen, news). In Unicode, it is encoded under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a core logograph with cultural and linguistic significance across several writing systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+805E
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
聞
HTML Hex Encoding
聞
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x81 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding
0x805E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000805E
C/C++/Java Escape
\u805e
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
BB44
kCCCII
215271
kCNS1986
1-6A4C
kCNS1992
1-6A4C
kCangjie
ANSJ
kCantonese
man4
kCihaiT
1084.301
kCowles
2617
kDaeJaweon
1418.090
kDefinition
hear; smell; make known; news
kEACC
215271
kFanqie
無分 亡運
kFenn
635A
kFennIndex
601.08 603.03
kFourCornerCode
7740.1
kGB1
4637
kGradeLevel
4
kGSR
0441f
kHangul
문:0E
kHanYu
74294.120
kHanyuPinlu
wén(133)
kHanyuPinyin
74294.120:wén,wèn
kHKGlyph
3249
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74294.120
kIRG_GSource
G1-4E45
kIRG_HSource
HB1-BB44
kIRG_JSource
J0-4A39
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-DBF0
kIRG_KSource
K0-5A24
kIRG_TSource
T1-6A4C
kIRG_VSource
V2-8F21
kJapanese
ブン モン きく きこえる
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kJapaneseKun
KIKU KIKOERU KIKOE
kJapaneseOn
BUN MON
kJis0
4225
kKangXi
0968.110
kKorean
MWUN
kLau
2093 2094
kMandarin
wén
kMatthews
7142
kMeyerWempe
1777
kMojiJoho
MJ020855
kMorohashi
29104
kNelson
4959
kPhonetic
929
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+3593+128.6.8 C+3593+169.8.6
kRSUnicode
128.8
kSBGY
109.31 395.36
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
546.11 745.15
kSMSZD2003Readings
wén粵man4
kTaiwanTelegraph
5113
kTang
*miən
kTotalStrokes
14
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kXerox
244:260