U+4E70 "买" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
买
U+4E70 "买" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of "to buy" or "to purchase." It is a simplified form of the traditional character "買," which historically depicts a net (网) over shellfish (贝), referencing the ancient use of cowrie shells as currency. In modern Standard Written Chinese, "买" is a fundamental and frequently used character, appearing in everyday vocabulary such as "买东西" meaning "to buy things." Its structure in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block reflects a core component of East Asian written language, serving as a practical and essential element in digital text representation for millions of users.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E70 |
| 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 | 买 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 买 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB9 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e70 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27597A |
| kCangjie | NYK |
| kCantonese | maai5 |
| kDefinition | buy, purchase; bribe, persuade |
| kEACC | 27597A |
| kFourCornerCode | 1780 |
| kGB0 | 3482 |
| kHanYu | 10053.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | mǎi(774) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10053.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0084.141 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4272 |
| kTGH | 2013:588 |
| kKangXi | 0084.141 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6314 |
| kMandarin | mǎi |
| kPhonetic | 864 |
| kRSUnicode | 5.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 10.13 148.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 241.100:mǎi |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "買" U+8CB7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0759.020:mǎi |