U+8C9E "貞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
貞
U+8C9E "貞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji and hanzi character that broadly signifies virtue, chastity, integrity, or moral uprightness, often with connotations of being unyielding or faithful. In classical Chinese and Japanese contexts, it is associated with concepts of loyalty, divination, and constancy, historically used in compound terms like "貞操" (chastity) or "貞節" (moral integrity). The character's structure combines the radical "貝" (shell, symbolizing value) with the phonetic component "卜" (divination), reflecting an ancient cultural emphasis on steadfastness and principled behavior.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8C9E |
| 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 | 貞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 貞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB2 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8C9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008C9E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8c9e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AD73 |
| kCCCII | 215969 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5356 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5356 |
| kCangjie | YBUC |
| kCantonese | zing1 |
| kCihaiT | 1268.301 |
| kCowles | 265 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1665.040 |
| kDefinition | virtuous, chaste, pure; loyal |
| kEACC | 215969 |
| kFanqie | 陟盈 |
| kFenn | 857E |
| kFennIndex | 24.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2180.6 |
| kGB1 | 5374 |
| kGSR | 0834g |
| kHangul | 정:0E |
| kHanYu | 63622.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63622.030:zhēn,zhēng |
| kHKGlyph | 3894 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1665.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63622.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1204.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-556A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AD73 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4467 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E8E4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6F76 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5356 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-677A |
| kJapanese | テイ チョウ ジョウ ただしい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | TADASHII |
| kJapaneseOn | TEI JOU |
| kJis0 | 3671 |
| kKangXi | 1204.030 |
| kKorean | CENG |
| kLau | 1492 |
| kMandarin | zhēn |
| kMatthews | 346 |
| kMeyerWempe | 289 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024996 |
| kMorohashi | 36658 |
| kNelson | 0803 |
| kPhonetic | 198 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3075+25.2.7 C+3075+154.7.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.2 |
| kSBGY | 191.13 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "贞" U+8D1E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 663.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhēn粵zing1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6297 |
| kTang | djiɛng |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | trinh |
| kXerox | 252:047 |