U+8CEF "賯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8CEF "賯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that primarily functions as a variant or archaic form, with its pronunciation in modern Mandarin being uncertain or obscure, though it is sometimes associated with the character "珉" (mín) meaning a type of jade or precious stone. Its structure combines the radical "贝" (bèi), meaning shellfish or wealth, with a phonetic component, and it appears in classical texts or specialized dictionaries rather than common usage. The character's exact semantic range is poorly documented, but it may relate to concepts of treasure, value, or decorative objects, reflecting its historical context within the vast corpus of Chinese writing. As a seldom-used ideograph, it lacks a well-defined meaning in contemporary language and is typically encountered only in scholarly study of ancient scripts or character variants.

General Properties

Code Point U+8CEF
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 賯
HTML Hex Encoding 賯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB3 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8CEF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008CEF
C/C++/Java Escape \u8cef

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

kCNS1986 E-5275
kCNS1992 3-5275
kCangjie BCPAD
kCantonese hing1
kHanYu 63653.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63653.040
kIRGKangXi 1210.240
kIRG_GSource GE-4D67
kIRG_JSource J1-5F38
kIRG_TSource T3-5275
kJapanese ケイ
kJapaneseKun TAKARA
kJapaneseOn KEI
kJis1 6324
kKangXi 1210.240
kMandarin xiōng
kMojiJoho MJ025090
kMorohashi 36854
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+22591+154.7.9
kRSUnicode 154.9
kTotalStrokes 16