U+8CA9 "販" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
販
U+8CA9 "販" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese as a kanji, primarily meaning "to sell" or "to deal in," often in the context of retail trade or peddling. Its structure combines the radical 貝 (shell, representing wealth or money) on the left with 反 on the right, which contributes phonetic and semantic hints related to "turning over" or "exchanging." This character is commonly used in compounds such as 販売 (hanbai, meaning "sales" in Japanese) and 販賣 (fànmài, meaning "to sell" in Chinese), and it plays a key role in commercial and economic vocabulary across both languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8CA9 |
| 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 | 販 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 販 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB2 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8CA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008CA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8ca9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B363 |
| kCCCII | 215972 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5D49 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5D49 |
| kCangjie | BCHE |
| kCantonese | faan3 |
| kCihaiT | 1271.401 |
| kCowles | 664 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1667.030 |
| kDefinition | peddler, hawker, street merchant |
| kEACC | 215972 |
| kFanqie | 方願 |
| kFenn | 215F |
| kFennIndex | 129.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6184.7 |
| kGB1 | 2323 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0262f |
| kHangul | 판:0E |
| kHanYu | 63627.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | fàn(14) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63627.050:fàn |
| kHKGlyph | 3898 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1667.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63627.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1205.150 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3737 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B363 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-484E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F1A1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-777C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5D49 |
| kJapanese | ハン ホン あきなう ひさぐ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | AKINAU |
| kJapaneseOn | HAN |
| kJis0 | 4046 |
| kKangXi | 1205.150 |
| kKarlgren | 19 |
| kKorean | PHAN |
| kLau | 649 650 |
| kMandarin | fàn |
| kMatthews | 1784 |
| kMeyerWempe | 451 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025011 |
| kMorohashi | 36679 |
| kNelson | 4491 |
| kPhonetic | 339 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3426+154.7.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.4 |
| kSBGY | 397.28 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+27DB6<kFenn |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "贩" U+8D29 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 664.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fàn粵faan3,faan2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6305 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 253:105 |