U+8CD2 "賒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8CD2 "賒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that conveys the concept of buying or selling on credit, often implying a deferred payment or borrowing. In modern usage, it appears in contexts such as commerce and finance, where it denotes a transaction in which goods or services are provided with the expectation of future settlement. Historically, this character emerges from the broader tradition of Chinese written language, where it combines the radical for "shell" or "money" (贝) with a phonetic component, reflecting its economic and transactional significance across various East Asian cultures that adopted Chinese characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+8CD2
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 賒
HTML Hex Encoding 賒
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB3 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8CD2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008CD2
C/C++/Java Escape \u8cd2

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 BBAD
kCCCII 215A2B
kCNS1986 1-6B35
kCNS1992 1-6B35
kCangjie BCOMF
kCantonese se1
kCowles 3869
kDefinition buy and sell on credit; distant
kEACC 215A2B
kFenn 514E
kFennIndex 441.01
kFourCornerCode 6889.1
kGB1 4162
kGSR 0082t
kHanYu 63642.170
kHanyuPinyin 63642.170:shē,shā
kHKGlyph 3926
kIICore ATHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63642.170
kIRGKangXi 1208.350
kIRG_GSource G1-495E
kIRG_HSource HB1-BBAD
kIRG_JSource JMJ-025061
kIRG_KPSource KP1-792E
kIRG_TSource T1-6B35
kIRG_VSource V2-9037
kJapanese シャ
kJapaneseOn SHA
kKangXi 1208.350
kLau 2704
kMandarin shē
kMatthews 5695
kMeyerWempe 2658
kMojiJoho MJ025061
kMorohashi 49736
kPhonetic 1154 1610
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+19830+154.7.7
kRSUnicode 154.7
kSimplifiedVariant "赊" U+8D4A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 667.07
kSMSZD2003Readings shē粵se1
kTaiwanTelegraph 6332
kTang shia
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 263:150