U+8CE7 "賧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
賧
U+8CE7 "賧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character belonging to the set of Unified CJK Ideographs in the Unicode Standard. Its modern meaning relates to "ransom" or to "offer a bribe," often associated with the concept of buying one's freedom or influencing others through money or goods. Historically, the character is composed of the "shell" radical (貝, representing wealth or trade) and a phonetic component, reflecting its roots in transactions involving payment. In contemporary usage, it appears primarily in formal or literary contexts, carrying a nuance of monetary exchange for redemption or illicit inducement.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8CE7 |
| 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 | 賧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 賧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB3 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8CE7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008CE7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8ce7 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E7EE |
| kCCCII | 23366B |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5457 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5457 |
| kCangjie | BCFF |
| kCantonese | daam6 |
| kCihaiT | 1278.203 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1676.020 |
| kDefinition | fine |
| kFanqie | 吐濫 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6988.9 |
| kGB1 | 7470 |
| kHanYu | 63650.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63650.130:tàn |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1676.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63650.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1210.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6A66 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E7EE |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-025081 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7951 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6263 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5457 |
| kJapanese | タン ダン |
| kKangXi | 1210.040 |
| kMandarin | tàn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025081 |
| kMorohashi | 36830 |
| kPhonetic | 1568* |
| kRSUnicode | 154.8 |
| kSBGY | 442.50 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "赕" U+8D55 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 668.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dǎn粵daam6 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 321:146 |