U+8655 "處" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
處
U+8655 "處" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "place," "location," "to dwell," or "to handle and manage" depending on context, with its usage extending across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. In historical and modern texts, it often appears in compounds like 處所 (place), 處理 (to handle or process), and 處罰 (to punish), reflecting its semantic range from physical spaces to abstract actions. The character’s structure combines a radical meaning "tiger" and a phonetic component, illustrating the logographic nature of Chinese script through its composition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8655 |
| 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 | 處 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 處 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x99 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8655 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008655 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8655 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B342 |
| kCCCII | 215647 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5D28 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5D28 |
| kCangjie | YPHEN |
| kCantonese | cyu3 |
| kCihaiT | 1183.502 |
| kCowles | 589 590 3987 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1541.030 |
| kDefinition | place, locale; department |
| kEACC | 215647 |
| kFanqie | 昌與 昌據 |
| kFenn | 396B |
| kFennIndex | 98.09 99.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2124.1 |
| kGB1 | 2006 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0085a |
| kHangul | 처:0E |
| kHanYu | 42822.120 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chù(661) chǔ(357) chu(149) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42822.120:chǔ,chù,jù |
| kHKGlyph | 3577 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1541.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42822.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1073.250 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3426 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B342 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-515D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-ECF6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7425 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5D28 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-656E |
| kJapanese | ショ キョ コ ところ |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOKORO ORU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHO |
| kJis0 | 4961 |
| kKangXi | 1073.250 |
| kKorean | CHE |
| kLau | 378 379 2910 |
| kMandarin | chù |
| kMatthews | 1407 |
| kMeyerWempe | 361 362 2765 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023287 |
| kMorohashi | 32697 |
| kNelson | 4108 |
| kPhonetic | 1239 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4244+141.6.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 141.5 |
| kSBGY | 257.19 363.39 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+458F<kMatthews U+51E6<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "处" U+5904 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 607.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chù粵cyu3 chǔ粵cyu5 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+51E6<kFenn U+55FB U+458F<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5710 |
| kTang | *chiù *chiǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | xử |
| kXerox | 242:045 |
| kXHC1983 | 0160.101:chǔ 0161.111:chù |