U+8CA2 "貢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

貢

U+8CA2 "貢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used in traditional writing and shared across East Asian scripts, including Japanese (where it is read as "mitsugu" or "kou") and Korean (pronounced "gong"). It primarily means "tribute" or "to contribute," conveying the act of offering goods, services, or respect to a superior, such as a ruler or deity. The character is composed of the radical "貝" (shell, representing wealth or currency) at the bottom and the phonetic component "工" (work or labor) above, reflecting its original association with presenting valuable items as a form of duty or honor in ancient Chinese society. This glyph carries historical weight in Confucian and imperial contexts, symbolizing loyalty and hierarchical obligation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8CA2
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	貢
HTML Hex Encoding	貢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB2 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8CA2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008CA2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8ca2

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

kBigFive	B05E
kCCCII	21596B
kCNS1986	1-5843
kCNS1992	1-5843
kCangjie	MBUC
kCantonese	gung3
kCihaiT	1269.601
kCowles	1889
kDaeJaweon	1666.030
kDefinition	offer tribute; tribute, gifts
kEACC	21596B
kFanqie	古送
kFenn	8E
kFennIndex	279.03
kFourCornerCode	1080.6
kGB1	2517
kGSR	1172g
kHangul	공:0E
kHanYu	63624.050
kHanyuPinlu	gòng(97)
kHanyuPinyin	63624.050:gòng
kHKGlyph	3897
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1666.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63624.050
kIRGKangXi	1205.010
kIRG_GSource	G1-3931
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B05E
kIRG_JSource	J0-3957
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D0C4
kIRG_KSource	K0-4D78
kIRG_TSource	T1-5843
kIRG_VSource	V1-677D
kJapanese	コウクみつぐみつぎ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	MITSUGU MITSUGI
kJapaneseOn	KOU KU
kJis0	2555
kKangXi	1205.010
kKarlgren	469
kKorean	KONG
kMandarin	gòng
kMatthews	3715
kMeyerWempe	1342
kMojiJoho	MJ025002
kMorohashi	36665
kNelson	1458
kPhonetic	684 692
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2025+48.3.7 C+2025+154.7.3
kRSUnicode	154.3
kSBGY	342.06
kSimplifiedVariant	"贡" U+8D21 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	663.06 191.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	gòng粵gung3
kTaiwanTelegraph	6300
kTang	*gùng
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	cống
kXerox	251:310