U+8CA0 "負" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+8CA0 "負" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese (as a kanji) and Korean (as a hanja), with the core meaning of "to bear," "to carry," or "to be burdened with," as well as "negative" or "minus" in mathematical and philosophical contexts. This ideograph is composed of the radical for "shell" or "money" (貝) on the bottom, combined with a top element that originally depicted a person turning away, symbolically representing the idea of carrying a debt or a load. In modern usage, it is frequently found in words related to responsibility, such as "責任" (responsibility), or in compounds like "負数" (negative number) and "負荷" (load or burden). As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified block, it shares its shape and meaning across these East Asian scripts, though its pronunciation and specific usage may vary, from Mandarin "fù" to Japanese "fu" or "ou," reflecting its deep cultural and linguistic roots.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
負 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
負 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE8 0xB2 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x8CA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00008CA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u8ca0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive |
AD74 |
| kCCCII |
21596A |
| kCNS1986 |
1-5357 |
| kCNS1992 |
1-5357 |
| kCangjie |
NBUC |
| kCantonese |
fu6 |
| kCihaiT |
1268.501 |
| kCowles |
839 |
| kDaeJaweon |
1665.060 |
| kDefinition |
load, burden; carry, bear |
| kEACC |
21596A |
| kFanqie |
房久 |
| kFenn |
856C |
| kFennIndex |
144.05 |
| kFourCornerCode |
2780.6 |
| kGB1 |
2426 |
| kGradeLevel |
4 |
| kGSR |
1000a |
| kHangul |
부:0E |
| kHanYu |
63623.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu |
fù(322) fu(25) |
| kHanyuPinyin |
63623.040:fù |
| kHKGlyph |
3895 |
| kIICore |
ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon |
1665.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
63623.040 |
| kIRGKangXi |
1204.060 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G1-383A |
| kIRG_HSource |
HB1-AD74 |
| kIRG_JSource |
J0-4969 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP0-DEFD |
| kIRG_KSource |
K0-5D36 |
| kIRG_TSource |
T1-5357 |
| kIRG_VSource |
V1-677B |
| kJapanese |
フ ブ まける まかす おう そむく たのむ まけ |
| kJoyoKanji |
2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja |
2007 |
| kJapaneseKun |
OU MAKERU TANOMU |
| kJapaneseOn |
FU BU |
| kJis0 |
4173 |
| kKangXi |
1204.060 |
| kKarlgren |
55 |
| kKorean |
PWU |
| kLau |
743 |
| kMandarin |
fù |
| kMatthews |
1956 |
| kMeyerWempe |
568 |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ024999 MJ024999:E0103 MJ024998:E0104 MJ025000:E0105 |
| kMorohashi |
36660:E0104 |
| kNelson |
0685 4488 |
| kPhonetic |
391 1083 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 |
C+3547+154.7.2 V+14005+18.2.7 V+14005+154.7.2 V+14006+154.7.2 |
| kRSUnicode |
154.2 |
| kSBGY |
322.37 |
| kSimplifiedVariant |
"负" U+8D1F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index |
663.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings |
fù粵fu6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph |
6298 |
| kTang |
*bhiou |
| kTotalStrokes |
9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese |
phụ |
| kXerox |
245:326 |