U+8CEA "質" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
質
U+8CEA "質" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character that primarily conveys meanings related to substance, quality, or essence, often used in words like 品質 (quality) or 物質 (matter). In traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji, it consists of two components, with the top element resembling two axes (斤) and the bottom component representing shells or currency (貝), historically suggesting the notion of exchanging goods to assess their intrinsic value. This character is also used in contexts such as 質問 (questioning or interrogation) and 質素 (simplicity or frugality), reflecting its broad semantic range from physical matter to abstract concepts of authenticity or character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8CEA |
| 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 | 質 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 質 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB3 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8CEA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008CEA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8cea |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BDE8 |
| kCCCII | 215A34 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6F33 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6F33 |
| kCangjie | HLBUC |
| kCantonese | zat1 |
| kCihaiT | 1277.401 |
| kCowles | 150 232 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1676.050 |
| kDefinition | matter, material, substance |
| kEACC | 215A34 |
| kFanqie | 陟利 之日 |
| kFenn | 856D |
| kFennIndex | 70.11 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7280.6 |
| kGB1 | 5442 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0493a |
| kHangul | 질:0E |
| kHanYu | 63648.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhì(902) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63648.080:zhì |
| kHKGlyph | 3936 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1676.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63648.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1210.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-564A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDE8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3C41 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EBC7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7275 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6F33 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6836 |
| kJapanese | シツ シチ チ ただす たち |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | MOTO TASUKERU TORU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHITSU SHICHI |
| kJis0 | 2833 |
| kKangXi | 1210.070 |
| kKorean | CIL CI |
| kLau | 1347 1438 |
| kMandarin | zhì |
| kMatthews | 1009 |
| kMeyerWempe | 165 250a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025084 |
| kMorohashi | 36833 |
| kNelson | 4518 |
| kPhonetic | 72 571 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2285+154.7.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.8 |
| kSBGY | 353.12 467.52 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8CAD<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "质" U+8D28 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 668.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhì粵zat1 zhì粵zi3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6347 |
| kTang | *jit |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | chất |
| kXerox | 244:251 |
| kXHC1983 | 1493.091:zhì |