U+8CBB "費" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
費
U+8CBB "費" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a standard East Asian character representing the concept of cost, expense, or fees, and it is widely used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean written languages. In Chinese, it is pronounced "fèi" and forms common words such as "費用" meaning expense, "消費" meaning consumption, and "免費" meaning free of charge. Its structure combines the radical for shellfish or money (貝, indicating value) with a phonetic component, reflecting its historical association with financial transactions and resource expenditure. In Japanese, it carries similar meanings including wasting or time consumption, appearing in compounds like "支出" for expenditure, while in Korean it is used in formal and economic contexts as well.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8CBB |
| 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 | 費 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 費 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB2 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8CBB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008CBB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8cbb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B64F |
| kCCCII | 215975 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6236 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6236 |
| kCangjie | LNBUC |
| kCantonese | fai3 |
| kCihaiT | 1273.102 |
| kCowles | 691 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1670.090 |
| kDefinition | expenses, expenditures, fee |
| kEACC | 215975 |
| kFanqie | 兵媚 芳未 扶沸 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5580.6 |
| kGB1 | 2349 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0500s |
| kHangul | 비:0E |
| kHanYu | 63635.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | fèi(305) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63635.070:fèi,fú,bì |
| kHKGlyph | 3907 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1670.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63635.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1207.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3751 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B64F |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4871 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DFEF |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E28 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6236 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-682B |
| kJapanese | ヒ フチ フツ ついやす ついえる ついえ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUIYASU TSUIERU TSUIE |
| kJapaneseOn | HI FUTSU |
| kJis0 | 4081 |
| kKangXi | 1207.040 |
| kKarlgren | 47 |
| kKorean | PI |
| kLau | 663 |
| kMandarin | fèi |
| kMatthews | 1847 |
| kMeyerWempe | 473 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025031 |
| kMorohashi | 36717 |
| kNelson | 4497 |
| kPhonetic | 348 358 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3461+154.7.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.5 |
| kSBGY | 351.26 359.33 360.35 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "费" U+8D39 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 665.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fèi粵fai3 bì粵bei3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6316 |
| kTang | piə̀i |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | phí |
| kXerox | 243:251 |