U+8CE4 "賤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
賤
U+8CE4 "賤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that carries the meanings of "cheap," "lowly," or "despicable," often used in contexts related to low social status or moral disdain. In its traditional form (simplified as 贱), it is composed of the radical 貝 (shell, representing money or value) and a phonetic component, reflecting its original sense of being of little worth or cost. This character appears in classical and modern East Asian writing, including in terms like "卑賤" meaning humble or base, and it has historical usage in philosophical and literary works to denote inferiority or ignobility.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8CE4 |
| 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 | 賤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 賤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB3 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8CE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008CE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8ce4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BDE2 |
| kCCCII | 215A31 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6F2D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6F2D |
| kCangjie | BCII |
| kCantonese | zin6 |
| kCihaiT | 1277.303 |
| kCowles | 4559 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1675.030 |
| kDefinition | mean, low; cheap, worthless |
| kEACC | 215A31 |
| kFanqie | 才線 |
| kFenn | 332A |
| kFennIndex | 62.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6385.3 |
| kGB1 | 2890 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0155n |
| kHangul | 천:0E |
| kHanYu | 63647.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiàn(29) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63647.050:jiàn |
| kHKGlyph | 3929 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1675.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63647.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1209.350 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3C7A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDE2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6C4D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EDB3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7441 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6F2D |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6833 |
| kJapanese | セン ゼン いやしい しず |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | IYASHII SHIZU |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN ZEN |
| kJis0 | 7645 |
| kKangXi | 1209.350 |
| kKorean | CHEN |
| kLau | 1488 |
| kMandarin | jiàn |
| kMatthews | 868 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3364 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025078 |
| kMorohashi | 36826 |
| kNelson | 4515 |
| kPhonetic | 185 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6766+154.7.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.8 |
| kSBGY | 411.49 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "贱" U+8D31 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 668.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiàn粵zin6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6345 |
| kTang | *dzhiɛ̀n |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tiện |
| kXerox | 254:074 |
| kXHC1983 | 0555.011:jiàn |