U+8CDB "賛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8CDB "賛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) and Japanese kanji that primarily means "praise," "approve," or "support." It is composed of two main components: the top part "先" (which originally signified "to go before" or "precede") and the bottom part "貝" (meaning "shell" or "money"), though in modern usage the character is understood as a whole to represent the concept of giving approval or acclaim. Frequently used in compound words in both Chinese and Japanese, such as "賛成" (sansei, meaning "agreement" or "approval") and "賛美" (sanbi, meaning "praise" or "glorification"), it appears in contexts ranging from formal documents to everyday conversation, highlighting its role in expressing positive affirmation or commendation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8CDB
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	賛
HTML Hex Encoding	賛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB3 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8CDB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008CDB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8cdb

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

kCCCII	23366D
kCNS1986	E-4E7E
kCNS1992	3-4E7E
kCangjie	QOBUC
kCantonese	zaan3
kCihaiT	1278.206
kDefinition	help, support, assist, aid
kEACC	2D5A3D
kFanqie	則旰
kFourCornerCode	5580.6
kGSR	0153b
kHangul	찬:N
kHanYu	63645.050
kIICore	AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63645.050
kIRGKangXi	1209.130
kIRG_GSource	GE-4D64
kIRG_HSource	H-8FF9
kIRG_JSource	J0-3B3F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-794C
kIRG_KSource	K2-625F
kIRG_TSource	T3-4E7E
kJapanese	サン たすける たたえる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	TASUKERU TATAERU
kJapaneseOn	SAN
kJis0	2731
kKangXi	1209.130
kKorean	CHAN
kLau	1290
kMandarin	zàn
kMatthews	6676
kMojiJoho	MJ025069
kMorohashi	36841
kNelson	4516
kPhonetic	28
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2189+154.7.8
kRSUnicode	154.8
kSBGY	402.18
kSemanticVariant	U+8D0A<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	669.05
kTaiwanTelegraph	9256
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	HJ
kXHC1983	1439.131:zàn