U+8CB6 "貶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

貶

U+8CB6 "貶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning to reduce, demote, or devalue, often used in contexts such as depreciating currency or lowering someone’s official rank in ancient imperial examinations and court hierarchies. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, which standardizes characters shared across these languages, and is composed of the radical 貝 (shell, associated with wealth) on the left, suggesting a monetary or transactional connotation, and the phonetic component 乏 (meaning scarce or lacking) on the right, together forming a logograph that signifies a decrease in worth or status. This character is frequently encountered in classical texts, modern Chinese, and Japanese kanji, where it retains its core meaning of downgrading or disparaging.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8CB6
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	貶
HTML Hex Encoding	貶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB2 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8CB6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008CB6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8cb6

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	B653
kCCCII	21597B
kCNS1986	1-623A
kCNS1992	1-623A
kCangjie	BCHIO
kCantonese	bin2
kCihaiT	1272.401
kDaeJaweon	1669.080
kDefinition	decrease, lower; censure, criticize
kEACC	21597B
kFanqie	方斂
kFenn	300G
kFennIndex	409.01
kFourCornerCode	6283.7
kGB1	1765
kGSR	0641d
kHangul	폄:0N
kHanYu	63628.030
kHanyuPinyin	63628.030:biǎn,fá
kHKGlyph	3913
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1669.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63628.030
kIRGKangXi	1206.200
kIRG_GSource	G1-3161
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B653
kIRG_JSource	J0-6C4A
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F1B3
kIRG_KSource	K0-783F
kIRG_TSource	T1-623A
kIRG_VSource	V1-6829
kJapanese	ヘンハンホンホウボウおとしめるおとす
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	OTOSU OTOSHIMERU
kJapaneseOn	HEN
kJis0	7642
kKangXi	1206.200
kKarlgren	15
kKorean	PHYEM
kLau	98
kMandarin	biǎn
kMatthews	5237
kMeyerWempe	2360b
kMojiJoho	MJ025026
kMorohashi	36707
kNelson	4489
kPhonetic	359 1043
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6763+154.7.4
kRSUnicode	154.5
kSBGY	334.06
kSimplifiedVariant	"贬" U+8D2C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	665.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	biǎn粵bin2
kTaiwanTelegraph	6312
kTang	byɛ̌m
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	biếm
kXerox	262:042