U+8B8A "變" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+8B8A "變" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that fundamentally means "to change," "to transform," or "to alter," conveying a sense of dynamic transition from one state to another. Composed of elements suggesting speech and action, its structure visually implies a process of modification or mutation, and it is widely used in classical and modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts. In Chinese philosophy and culture, this character carries significant weight, appearing in key concepts such as "yì" (易) from the I Ching, where change is seen as a fundamental principle of the universe, and it is also found in common compounds like "變化" (biànhuà), meaning "change" or "variation."
General Properties
Code Point
U+8B8A
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
變
HTML Hex Encoding
變
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0xAE 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8B8A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008B8A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8b8a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
C5DC
kCCCII
21594B
kCNS1986
1-7C48
kCNS1992
1-7C48
kCangjie
VFOK
kCantonese
bin3
kCihaiT
1257.606
kCowles
3293
kDaeJaweon
1650.020
kDefinition
change, transform, alter; rebel
kEACC
21594B
kFanqie
彼眷
kFenn
888B
kFennIndex
409.03
kFourCornerCode
2240.8
kGB1
1768
kGradeLevel
3
kGSR
0178o
kHangul
변:0E
kHanYu
21481.070
kHanyuPinlu
biàn(1669)
kHanyuPinyin
21481.070:biàn
kHKGlyph
3865
kIICore
ATHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
21481.070
kIRG_GSource
G1-3164
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C5DC
kIRG_JSource
J0-5A4E
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-DDF1
kIRG_KSource
K0-5C28
kIRG_TSource
T1-7C48
kIRG_VSource
V1-6766
kJapanese
ヘン ベン かわる
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kJapaneseKun
KAWARU
kJapaneseOn
HEN
kJis0
5846
kKangXi
1186.120
kKorean
PYEN
kLau
99
kMandarin
biàn
kMatthews
5245
kMeyerWempe
2361
kMojiJoho
MJ024841 MJ024841:E0101 MJ024840:E0102
kMorohashi
36117 36117:E0101 36112:E0102
kNelson
1166 2063
kPhonetic
833
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+5075+66.4.19 C+5075+149.7.16
kRSUnicode
149.16
kSBGY
410.57
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
657.08 533.12
kSMSZD2003Readings
biàn粵bin3
kTaiwanTelegraph
6239
kTang
byɛ̀n
kTotalStrokes
23
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
biến
kXerox
242:343
kXHC1983
0066.071:biàn
kJapaneseNewVariant
U+5909