U+8CB8 "貸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
貸
U+8CB8 "貸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to lend" or "to borrow," encompassing the concept of a loan or credit. It is composed of the radical for "shell" or "money" (貝) on the bottom, representing wealth or monetary value, and a phonetic component on the top that suggests its pronunciation. This character is used in various East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, often appearing in financial contexts such as in words for "loan" (貸款) or "debt" (借貸), and it reflects the historical importance of shell money in ancient trade and commerce.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8CB8 |
| 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 | 貸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 貸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8CB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008CB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8cb8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B655 |
| kCCCII | 21597D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-623C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-623C |
| kCangjie | OPBUC |
| kCantonese | taai3 |
| kCihaiT | 1272.601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1670.010 |
| kDefinition | lend; borrow; pardon |
| kEACC | 21597D |
| kFanqie | 他代 |
| kFenn | 328F |
| kFennIndex | 489.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2380.6 |
| kGB1 | 2091 |
| kGSR | 0918p |
| kHangul | 대:0E |
| kHanYu | 63634.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63634.020:dài,tè |
| kHKGlyph | 3915 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1670.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63634.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1206.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-347B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B655 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-425F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D7A6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5368 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-623C |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-9033 |
| kJapanese | タイ トク かす かりる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KASU |
| kJapaneseOn | TAI TOKU |
| kJis0 | 3463 |
| kKangXi | 1206.220 |
| kKorean | TAY THUK |
| kLau | 2992 |
| kMandarin | dài |
| kMatthews | 6000 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2927 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025028 |
| kMorohashi | 36709 |
| kNelson | 4503 |
| kPhonetic | 1370 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2879+154.7.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.5 |
| kSBGY | 390.12 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "贷" U+8D37 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 665.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dài粵taai3 tè粵tik1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6313 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 257:252 |