U+503A "债" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+503A "债" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "debt," "liability," or "obligation," and it is commonly used in financial and legal contexts in both modern and classical Chinese text. The character combines the radical for "person" on the left with the phonetic component "责" on the right, which itself carries meanings of responsibility or duty, together forming a concept of something owed by a person. In Chinese culture and language, this ideograph appears in terms such as "债务" for debt, "负债" for liabilities, and "债券" for bonds, reflecting its central role in economic discourse. As a part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, this character is recognized across multiple East Asian writing systems, where it retains a similar meaning in Japanese and Korean as well.

General Properties

Code Point U+503A
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 债
HTML Hex Encoding 债
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x80 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x503A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000503A
C/C++/Java Escape \u503a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII 273247
kCangjie OQMO
kCantonese zaai3
kDefinition debt, loan, liabilities
kEACC 273247
kFourCornerCode 2528
kGB0 5314
kHanYu 10170.020
kHanyuPinlu zhài(36)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10170.020
kIRGKangXi 0109.171
kIRG_GSource G0-552E
kTGH 2013:1954
kKangXi 0109.171
kMainlandTelegraph 0280
kMandarin zhài
kPhonetic 16*
kRSUnicode 9.8
kSMSZD2003Index 34.20
kTGHZ2013 464.060:zhài
kTotalStrokes 10
kTraditionalVariant "債" U+50B5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1450.080:zhài