U+8CB7 "買" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
買
U+8CB7 "買" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "to buy" or "to purchase," and it is composed of the radical for "net" or "shell" (貝) at the top, symbolizing wealth or trade, with a component below that historically relates to gathering or exchanging goods. This character is widely used in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, appearing in everyday terms like "購買" (gòumǎi) in Chinese and "買い物" (kaimono) in Japanese. Its structure reflects ancient commercial practices, where shells served as currency, and it remains a fundamental logogram in East Asian typography and digital text encoding for representing the act of acquisition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8CB7 |
| 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 | 買 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 買 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB2 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8CB7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008CB7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8cb7 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B652 |
| kCCCII | 21597A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6239 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6239 |
| kCangjie | WLBUC |
| kCantonese | maai5 |
| kCihaiT | 1272.402 |
| kCowles | 2569 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1669.090 |
| kDefinition | buy, purchase; bribe, persuade |
| kEACC | 21597A |
| kFanqie | 莫蟹 |
| kFenn | 863A |
| kFennIndex | 327.09 328.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6080.6 |
| kGB1 | 3482 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 1240c |
| kHangul | 매:0E |
| kHanYu | 63633.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | mǎi(774) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63633.070:mǎi |
| kHKGlyph | 3911 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1669.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63633.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1206.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4272 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B652 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4763 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DCC6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5862 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6239 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-682A |
| kJapanese | バイ マイ かう |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAU |
| kJapaneseOn | BAI |
| kJis0 | 3967 |
| kKangXi | 1206.210 |
| kKorean | MAY |
| kLau | 2052 |
| kMandarin | mǎi |
| kMatthews | 4322 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1738 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025027 |
| kMorohashi | 36708 |
| kNelson | 3637 |
| kPhonetic | 864 1083 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3353+122.5.7 C+3353+154.7.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.5 |
| kSBGY | 270.38 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "买" U+4E70 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "𧹒" U+27E52 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 665.03 535.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | mǎi粵maai5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6314 |
| kTang | *mɛ̌i |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | mãi |
| kXerox | 243:072 |
| kXHC1983 | 0759.021:mǎi |