U+8CC8 "賈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
賈
U+8CC8 "賈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used in multiple East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It primarily means "merchant," "to buy," or "to sell," and historically refers to commercial activity or a person engaged in trade. In modern usage, it appears in surnames and place names, as well as in classical texts discussing commerce. The character combines the radical "貝" (shell, related to wealth or money) with the phonetic component "襾," reflecting its semantic link to economic transactions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8CC8 |
| 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 | 賈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 賈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB3 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8CC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008CC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8cc8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B8EB |
| kCCCII | 215A24 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6672 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6672 |
| kCangjie | MWBUC |
| kCantonese | gaa2 |
| kCihaiT | 1275.101 |
| kCowles | 1804 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1672.060 |
| kDefinition | surname; merchant; buy, trade |
| kEACC | 215A24 |
| kFanqie | 公戶 古疋 古訝 |
| kFenn | 856G |
| kFennIndex | 43.04 261.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1080.6 |
| kGB1 | 2854 |
| kGSR | 0038b |
| kHangul | 가:0N 고:0N |
| kHanYu | 63637.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63637.070:gǔ,jià,jiǎ |
| kHKGlyph | 3919 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1672.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63637.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1208.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3C56 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B8EB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6C4B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CFFA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A39 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6672 |
| kJapanese | カ コ ク ケ あきない あきなう うる かう |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | AKINAU AKINAI URU |
| kJapaneseOn | KO |
| kJis0 | 7643 |
| kKangXi | 1208.100 |
| kKarlgren | 135 |
| kKorean | KA KO |
| kMandarin | jiǎ |
| kMatthews | 3476 |
| kMeyerWempe | 933c 1265 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025048 |
| kMorohashi | 36755 |
| kNelson | 4278 |
| kPhonetic | 535 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6764+146.6.7 C+6764+154.7.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.6 |
| kSBGY | 266.09 308.12 421.42 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "贾" U+8D3E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 666.11 636.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiǎ粵gaa2 gǔ粵gu2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6328 |
| kTang | *gǎ |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 252:312 |