U+5356 "卖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
卖
U+5356 "卖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to sell" or "to betray." It is a simplified form of the traditional character "賣," and its structure combines the radical for "ten" or "cross" on top with the character for "shell" or "money" below, reflecting the historical association of trade with valuable goods and currency. Used frequently in modern Chinese, it appears in words like "买卖" (buying and selling) and "出卖" (to betray or sell out). This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in the Unicode standard, which was created to encode common East Asian logographic scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5356 |
| 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 | 卖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 卖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8D 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5356 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005356 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5356 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275A2F |
| kCangjie | JNYK |
| kCantonese | maai6 |
| kDefinition | sell; betray; show off |
| kEACC | 275A2F |
| kFourCornerCode | 4080 |
| kGB0 | 3484 |
| kHanYu | 10065.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | mài(479) mai(51) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10065.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0157.041 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4274 |
| kTGH | 2013:1042 |
| kKangXi | 0157.041 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6344 |
| kMandarin | mài |
| kPhonetic | 864 1395 |
| kRSUnicode | 24.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 75.05 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 241.150:mài |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "賣" U+8CE3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0760.010:mài |