U+88E8 "裨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
裨
U+88E8 "裨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meanings of "to aid" or "to benefit," as well as referring to a "supplement" or "secondary" addition. In classical and modern usage, it appears in terms like "裨益" meaning benefit or advantage, and it is also used in historical contexts to denote a deputy or assistant official, such as in "裨将" referring to a vice general. This character is composed of the clothing radical 衤 combined with the phonetic component 卑, and it is classified under the Kangxi radical 145 for clothes, reflecting its etymological connection to the concept of adding or patching as an extension of cloth or covering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+88E8 |
| 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 | 裨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 裨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA3 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x88E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000088E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u88e8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BB74 |
| kCCCII | 21576D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6A7C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6A7C |
| kCangjie | LHHJ |
| kCantonese | pei4 |
| kCihaiT | 1215.206 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1584.110 |
| kDefinition | aid, benefit, help; supplement |
| kEACC | 21576D |
| kFanqie | 府移 符支 |
| kFenn | 807I |
| kFennIndex | 393.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3624.0 |
| kGB0 | 8152 |
| kGB1 | 8152 |
| kGSR | 0874e |
| kHangul | 비:0N |
| kHanYu | 53099.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53099.020:bì,pí |
| kHKGlyph | 3708 |
| kIICore | AGTHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1584.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53099.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1118.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7154 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BB74 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6A6B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DFEC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E25 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6A7C |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8F74 |
| kJapanese | ヒ ビ おぎなう たすける |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5598 |
| kJapaneseKun | OGINAU TASUKERU |
| kJapaneseOn | HI BI |
| kJis0 | 7475 |
| kKangXi | 1118.180 |
| kKorean | PI |
| kLau | 2489 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5947 |
| kMandarin | bì |
| kMatthews | 5072 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2336 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024017 |
| kMorohashi | 34338 |
| kNelson | 4244 |
| kPhonetic | 1029 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6608+145.5.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 145.8 |
| kSBGY | 047.10 047.23 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 631.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bì粵bei1 pí粵pei4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5947 |
| kTang | bhiɛ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 019.190:bì |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 265:112 |
| kXHC1983 | 0061.040:bì 0867.080:pí |