U+8C9D "貝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
貝
U+8C9D "貝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji character that originally depicted a cowrie shell, which was used as currency in ancient China, thus lending it the primary meaning of "shell" or "money" / "treasure". It serves as a common radical in many East Asian characters related to wealth, trade, and value, such as "買" (buy) and "賣" (sell). In modern usage, while simplified to "贝" in mainland Chinese, the traditional form "貝" continues to be widely used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Japanese kanji, representing both the literal object and the abstract concept of valuables or financial worth.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8C9D |
| 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 | 貝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 貝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB2 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8C9D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008C9D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8c9d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A8A9 |
| kCCCII | 215968 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4B4A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4B4A |
| kCangjie | BUC |
| kCantonese | bui3 |
| kCihaiT | 1267.603 |
| kCowles | 3381 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1665.020 |
| kDefinition | sea shell; money, currency; Kangxi radical 154 |
| kEACC | 215968 |
| kFanqie | 愽蓋 |
| kFenn | 856C |
| kFennIndex | 392.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6080.0 |
| kGB1 | 1720 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0320a |
| kHangul | 배:N 패:0E |
| kHanYu | 63622.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | bèi(49) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63622.010:bèi |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⾙[U+2F99]:63622.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 3893 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1665.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63622.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1204.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3134 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A8A9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-332D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F2AA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-782F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4B4A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6779 |
| kJapanese | バイ ハイ かい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAI |
| kJapaneseOn | BAI HAI |
| kJis0 | 1913 |
| kKangXi | 1204.010 |
| kKorean | PHAY |
| kMandarin | bèi |
| kMatthews | 5005 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2478 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024995 |
| kMorohashi | 36656 |
| kNelson | 4486 |
| kPhonetic | 1083 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1419+154.7.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.0 |
| kSBGY | 381.07 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "贝" U+8D1D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 662.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bèi粵bui3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6296 |
| kTang | *bɑ̀i |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | buổi |
| kXerox | 247:376 |
| kXHC1983 | 0048.031:bèi |