U+8B88 "讈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8B88 "讈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used in traditional and Japanese writing, primarily meaning "to blame" or "to reprimand" with a nuance of sternness or severity, and it belongs to the radical for words or speech (讠 simplified or 言 traditional). Historically, it appears in classical texts and dictionaries, where it is often associated with expressing harsh criticism or rebuke, though it is rarely used in modern standard Chinese. The character is composed of the speech radical combined with elements that contribute to its phonetic and semantic qualities, making it a complex but specialized logogram within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block.