U+8CE2 "賢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
賢
U+8CE2 "賢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character that fundamentally means "virtuous," "worthy," "talented," or "wise," and is commonly used in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its structure combines the radical for "shell" or "money" (貝) with elements suggesting a hand or toil, reflecting its original association with wealth and hard work, which evolved to signify moral excellence and intelligence. In modern usage, it appears in words like "賢明" (wise) and "賢者" (sage), and it is often applied as a respectful descriptor for people of high ability or integrity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8CE2 |
| 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 | 賢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 賢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB3 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8CE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008CE2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8ce2 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BDE5 |
| kCCCII | 215A30 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6F30 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6F30 |
| kCangjie | SEBUC |
| kCantonese | jin4 |
| kCihaiT | 1276.502 |
| kCowles | 1356 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1674.170 |
| kDefinition | virtuous, worthy, good; able |
| kEACC | 215A30 |
| kFanqie | 胡田 |
| kFenn | 643C |
| kFennIndex | 178.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7780.6 |
| kGB1 | 4745 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0368e |
| kHangul | 현:0E |
| kHanYu | 63646.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63646.060:xián,xiàn |
| kHKGlyph | 3932 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1674.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63646.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1209.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4F4D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDE5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-382D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F3CB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7A67 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6F30 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6831 |
| kJapanese | ケン かしこい まさる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KASHIKOI MASARU |
| kJapaneseOn | KEN |
| kJis0 | 2413 |
| kKangXi | 1209.280 |
| kKarlgren | 369 |
| kKorean | HYEN |
| kMandarin | xián |
| kMatthews | 2671 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025076 |
| kMorohashi | 36822 |
| kNelson | 4517 |
| kPhonetic | 619 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1889+154.7.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.8 |
| kSBGY | 133.37 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8D12<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "贤" U+8D24 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 668.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xián粵jin4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6343 |
| kTang | *hen |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hiền |
| kXerox | 251:060 |
| kXHC1983 | 1247.071:xián |