U+8C9F "貟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8C9F "貟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that primarily functions as a variant or component within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set. Its structure combines elements related to wealth or shell (貝, meaning "shell" or "money") with a phonetic component, and it is historically associated with meanings like "member" or "to increase," though it is largely archaic or superseded by more common characters such as "員" (yuán, meaning "member" or "personnel") in modern usage. This character appears in classical texts and certain specialized contexts, but it is not included in standard contemporary Chinese or Japanese character sets for everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+8C9F
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 貟
HTML Hex Encoding 貟
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB2 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8C9F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008C9F
C/C++/Java Escape \u8c9f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII 233643
kCNS1986 E-2F2E
kCNS1992 3-2F2E
kCangjie IBUC
kCantonese jyun4
kCihaiT 1269.501
kDaeJaweon 1665.050
kDefinition member; personnel, staff member
kEACC 233643
kFanqie 王分 王權 王問
kGB5 2110
kHangul 원:N
kHanYu 63624.040
kIRGDaeJaweon 1665.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63624.040
kIRGKangXi 1204.050
kIRG_GSource G5-352A
kIRG_HSource H-95C0
kIRG_JSource JMJ-024997
kIRG_KPSource KP1-78E8
kIRG_TSource T3-2F2E
kJapanese イン エン ウン かず
kKoreanName 2015
kKangXi 1204.050
kMandarin yuán
kMojiJoho MJ024997
kMorohashi 36659
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+13644+28.2.7 C+13644+154.7.2
kRSUnicode 154.2
kSBGY 110.14 142.15 396.06
kSimplifiedVariant "贠" U+8D20 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 663.03
kTaiwanTelegraph 9254
kTotalStrokes 9
kUnihanCore2020 H
kXerox 322:106