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Glyph for U+8A00
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U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8A00

U+8A00 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as words, speech; speak, say; Kangxi radical 149. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is yán.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+8A00 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Radical 149 or radical speech (言部) meaning "speech" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 861 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

言 is also the 166th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the simplified component form 讠 listed as its associated indexing component.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 35328
UTF-8 E8 A8 80
UTF-16 8A 00
UTF-32 00 00 8A 00
URL-Quoted %E8%A8%80
HTML hex reference 言
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 言
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) E5 EB
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) B8 C0
Pīnyīn yán

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A00
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✔
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✔
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A00
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) A8A5
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 215837
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-4B46
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-4B46
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) YMMR
kCantonese (kCantonese) jin4
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 1236.503
kCowles (kCowles) 1350
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1612.200
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) words, speech; speak, say; Kangxi radical 149
kEACC (kEACC) 215837
kFenn (kFenn) 740B
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 623.02 650.02
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 0060.1
kFrequency (kFrequency) 2
kGB0 (kGB0) 4952
kGB1 (kGB1) 4952
kGSR (kGSR) 0251a
kGradeLevel (kGradeLevel) 4
kHDZRadBreak (kHDZRadBreak) ⾔[U+2F94]:63936.010
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 3750
kHanYu (kHanYu) 63936.010
kHangul (kHangul) 언:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) yán(307)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 63936.010:yán,yàn,yín
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1612.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 63936.010
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1146.010
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-5154
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-A8A5
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-3840
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-F8BC
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-656B
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-4B46
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-6671
kJapanese (kJapanese) ゲン ゴン ギン いう こと ここに われ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) KOTO IU KOTOBA
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) GEN GON GIN
kJis0 (kJis0) 2432
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1146.010
kKarlgren (kKarlgren) 234
kKorean (kKorean) EN UN
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 3468
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 6056
kMandarin (kMandarin) yán
kMatthews (kMatthews) 7334
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 891
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ024331
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 35205
kNelson (kNelson) 4309
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 1575
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+1908+149.7.0
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 149.0
kSBGY (kSBGY) 115.31
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 641.12 14.13 96.02
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) yán粵jin4
Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+8A01 CJK Unified Ideograph-8A01
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:826
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 422.040:yán
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 6056
kTang (kTang) *ngiæn
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 7
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) ngôn
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1324.040:yán
Xerox Code (kXerox) 243:162