U+8A71 "話" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

話
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+8A71 "話" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji and hanzi character that represents the concept of speech, story, or language, composed of the radical 言 (words or speech) on the left and 舌 (tongue) on the right, suggesting spoken words. It is widely used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts, appearing in words like "對話" (conversation) and "神話" (myth), and carries cultural significance as a fundamental element for expressing communication and narrative across East Asian writing systems.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+8A71
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
話
HTML Hex Encoding
話
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0xA9 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8A71
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008A71
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8a71

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

kBigFive
B8DC
kCCCII
215866
kCNS1986
1-6663
kCNS1992
1-6663
kCangjie
YRHJR
kCantonese
waa6
kCihaiT
1244.201
kCowles
4960
kDaeJaweon
1624.060
kDefinition
speech, talk, language; dialect
kEACC
215866
kFanqie
下快
kFenn
707A
kFennIndex
201.04
kFourCornerCode
0266.4
kGB1
2716
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0302o
kHangul
화:0E
kHanYu
63965.060
kHanyuPinlu
huà(2332) hua(32)
kHanyuPinyin
63965.060:huà
kHKGlyph
3792
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
63965.060
kIRG_GSource
G1-3B30
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B8DC
kIRG_JSource
J0-4F43
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F6BC
kIRG_KSource
K0-7C25
kIRG_TSource
T1-6663
kIRG_VSource
V1-672E
kJapanese
ワ カイ エ カ ゲ はなす はなし
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kJapaneseKun
HANASU HANASHI
kJapaneseOn
WA KAI
kJis0
4735
kKangXi
1158.100
kKorean
HWA
kLau
3153 3154
kMandarin
huà
kMatthews
2215
kMeyerWempe
3694
kMojiJoho
MJ024462
kMorohashi
35441
kNelson
4358
kPhonetic
736 1410A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4073+135.6.7 C+4073+149.7.6
kRSUnicode
149.6
kSBGY
386.45
kSemanticVariant
U+46E1<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant
"话" U+8BDD CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index
647.03
kSMSZD2003Readings
huà粵waa6
kTaiwanTelegraph
6114
kTang
huài
kTotalStrokes
13
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
thoại
kXerox
241:266