U+50A8 "储" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
储
U+50A8 "储" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to store" or "to save" and is commonly used in modern Mandarin as a simplified form of the traditional character "儲". It appears in everyday vocabulary such as "储存" (storage) and "储备" (reserves), and is frequently found in contexts related to saving money, data storage, or stockpiling resources. This character belongs to the radical "亻" (person) on the left side, suggesting an action performed by a person, while the right side provides phonetic and semantic cues related to the idea of accumulating something valuable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+50A8 |
| 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 | 储 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 储 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x82 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x50A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000050A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u50a8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273269 |
| kCangjie | OIVA |
| kCantonese | cyu5 |
| kDefinition | save money, store, reserve; heir |
| kEACC | 273269 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2426 |
| kGB0 | 2002 |
| kHanYu | 10206.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chǔ(25) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10206.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0114.051 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3422 |
| kTGH | 2013:2697 |
| kKangXi | 0114.051 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0328 |
| kMandarin | chǔ |
| kRSUnicode | 9.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 38.07 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 050.130:chǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "儲" U+5132 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0160.050:chǔ |