U+8CE6 "賦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8CE6 "賦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to bestow," "to grant," "tax," or "verse" and is thus used in contexts ranging from historical taxation systems to poetic compositions. In classical Chinese literature, it specifically denotes a genre of descriptive prose-poetry that flourished during the Han dynasty, known for its elaborate rhyme and rhythmic structure. The character's semantic components reflect its dual heritage: the left radical (貝, meaning "shell" or "money") hints at financial or material bestowal, while the right side (武, meaning "martial" or "military") contributes to the phonetic and, in some interpretations, the idea of purposeful distribution. As a result, this unified ideograph carries rich cultural and historical weight, appearing in terms related to endowments, tribute, and literary forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+8CE6
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 賦
HTML Hex Encoding 賦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB3 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8CE6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008CE6
C/C++/Java Escape \u8ce6

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 BDE1
kCCCII 215A2D
kCNS1986 1-6F2C
kCNS1992 1-6F2C
kCangjie BCMPM
kCantonese fu3
kCihaiT 1277.304
kCowles 828
kDefinition tax; give; endow; army; diffuse
kEACC 215A2D
kFanqie 方遇
kFenn 330F
kFennIndex 145.04
kFourCornerCode 6384.0
kGB1 2419
kGSR 0104g
kHangul 부:0E
kHanYu 63644.040
kHanyuPinyin 63644.040:fù
kHKGlyph 3928
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63644.040
kIRGKangXi 1210.030
kIRG_GSource G1-3833
kIRG_HSource HB1-BDE1
kIRG_JSource J0-496A
kIRG_KPSource KP0-DEFE
kIRG_KSource K0-5D37
kIRG_TSource T1-6F2C
kIRG_VSource V1-6835
kJapanese フ みつぎ
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kJapaneseKun MITSUGI
kJapaneseOn FU
kJis0 4174
kKangXi 1210.030
kKorean PWU
kMandarin
kMatthews 1957
kMeyerWempe 559a
kMojiJoho MJ025080
kMorohashi 36800
kNelson 4513
kPhonetic 915
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3548+154.7.8
kRSUnicode 154.8
kSBGY 366.16
kSimplifiedVariant "赋" U+8D4B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 668.05
kSMSZD2003Readings fù粵fu3
kTaiwanTelegraph 6346
kTang *biò biò
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kVietnamese phú
kXerox 257:071