U+8CED "賭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
賭
U+8CED "賭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with the meaning of "bet" or "gamble", pronounced as dǔ in Mandarin and to in Cantonese. It belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems, and its structure combines the radical 貝 (shell, representing money or valuables) with the phonetic component 者 to suggest its gambling context. Commonly found in compounds like 賭博 (dǔbó, gamble) and 賭場 (dǔchǎng, casino), this character reflects cultural associations with risk and wagering across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8CED |
| 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 | 賭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 賭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB3 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8CED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008CED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8ced |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BDE4 |
| kCCCII | 215A35 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6F2F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6F2F |
| kCangjie | BCJKA |
| kCantonese | dou2 |
| kCihaiT | 1278.207 |
| kCowles | 4199 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1676.170 |
| kDefinition | bet, gamble, wager; compete |
| kEACC | 215A35 |
| kFanqie | 當古 |
| kFenn | 192C |
| kFennIndex | 568.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6486.3 |
| kGB1 | 2236 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kHangul | 도:0N |
| kHanYu | 63645.090 |
| kHanyuPinlu | dǔ(10) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63645.090:dǔ |
| kHKGlyph | 3931 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1676.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63645.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1210.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3644 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDE4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4552 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D6AB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-542E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6F2F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6837 |
| kJapanese | ト ツ かけ かける |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAKERU KAKE |
| kJapaneseOn | TO |
| kJis0 | 3750 |
| kKangXi | 1210.170 |
| kKorean | TO |
| kLau | 571 |
| kMandarin | dǔ |
| kMatthews | 6499 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3140 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025088 MJ025087:E0102 MJ025088:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 36847 36847:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4519 |
| kPhonetic | 94 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3148+154.7.8 V+7756+154.7.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.9 |
| kSBGY | 265.31 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "赌" U+8D4C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 669.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dǔ粵dou2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6350 |
| kTang | dǒ |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | đổ |
| kXerox | 252:062 |