U+8BF4 "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+8BF4 "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to speak," "to say," "to talk," or "to explain." It is composed of the radical 讠 (speech) on the left, indicating its connection to language, and the phonetic component 兑 on the right, which hints at its pronunciation as "shuō" in Mandarin. This character is widely used in modern and classical Chinese texts, appearing in common words like 说话 (to speak) and 说明 (to explain), and it also appears in the historical concepts of "shuōhuà" and narrative literature, reflecting its fundamental role in communication.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
说
HTML Hex Encoding
说
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0xAF 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8BF4
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008BF4
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8bf4

Unihan Properties

kCCCII
275869
kCangjie
IVCRU
kCantonese
syut3
kDefinition
speak, say, talk; scold, upbraid
kEACC
275869
kFourCornerCode
3871
kGB0
4321
kHanYu
63979.040
kHanyuPinlu
shuō(10245)
kIICore
AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
63979.040
kIRG_GSource
G0-4B35
kTGH
2013:1717
kKangXi
1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph
6141
kMandarin
shuō
kRSUnicode
149'.7
kTGHZ2013
344.140:shuì 345.070:shuō
kTotalStrokes
9
kUnihanCore2020
G
kXHC1983
1080.010:shuì 1082.010:shuō 1428.010:yuè