U+8463 "董" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
董
U+8463 "董" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to direct" or "to superintend," and it is commonly used in surnames, notably as the family name of the Eastern Han dynasty official and warlord Dong Zhuo. In modern usage, it appears in words like "董事" (dǒngshì), meaning "board member" or "director," and "古董" (gǔdǒng), meaning "antique" or "curio." The character is composed of the radical "艹" (grass radical) and the phonetic component "重" (zhòng), reflecting its historical role in administrative and managerial contexts within the Chinese writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8463 |
| 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 | 董 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 董 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x91 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8463 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008463 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8463 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B8B3 |
| kCCCII | 215557 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-663A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-663A |
| kCangjie | THJG |
| kCantonese | dung2 |
| kCihaiT | 1154.401 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1506.150 |
| kDefinition | direct, supervise; surname |
| kEACC | 215557 |
| kFanqie | 多動 |
| kFenn | 27C |
| kFennIndex | 578.05 579.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4410.4 |
| kGB0 | 2213 |
| kGB1 | 2213 |
| kGSR | 1188l |
| kHangul | 동:0N |
| kHanYu | 53250.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53250.030:dǒng,zhǒng |
| kHKGlyph | 3505 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1506.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53250.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1045.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-362D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B8B3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4621 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D6DC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-545D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-663A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-653D |
| kJapanese | トウ ツ ショウ シュ トク ただす |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2551 |
| kJapaneseKun | TADASU |
| kJapaneseOn | TOU |
| kJis0 | 3801 |
| kKangXi | 1045.230 |
| kKorean | TONG |
| kLau | 632 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5516 |
| kMandarin | dǒng |
| kMatthews | 6614 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3598 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022356 MJ022356:E0101 MJ022357:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31433:E0102 |
| kNelson | 3986 |
| kPhonetic | 332 1404 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3193+140.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.9 |
| kSBGY | 235.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 590.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dǒng粵dung2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5516 |
| kTang | dǔng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 078.110:dǒng |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | đổng |
| kXerox | 257:070 |
| kXHC1983 | 0259.030:dǒng |