U+8CE9 "賩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
賩
U+8CE9 "賩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obscure Chinese character, listed under the Kangxi Radical for "shell" or "money" (貝, radical 154), which often relates to wealth, trade, or valuables. Used in traditional and historical contexts, its modern usage is extremely limited, and it is not a commonly encountered character in contemporary Chinese, Japanese, or Korean texts, though it may appear in specialized dictionaries or classical literature. The character typically conveys meanings associated with offerings or contributions, and its structure combines the radical for money with a phonetic component to form its specific reading and definition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8CE9 |
| 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 | 賩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 賩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB3 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8CE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008CE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8ce9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 233668 |
| kCNS1986 | E-4E7D |
| kCNS1992 | 3-4E7D |
| kCangjie | BCJMF |
| kCantonese | cung4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1676.040 |
| kEACC | 233668 |
| kHanYu | 63650.150 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1676.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63650.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1210.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4D66 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-95C1 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-025083 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-4E7D |
| kJapanese | ソウ |
| kKangXi | 1210.060 |
| kMandarin | cóng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025083 |
| kMorohashi | 36832 |
| kPhonetic | 321 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.8 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9255 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |
| kXerox | 317:054 |