U+8D08 "贈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
贈
U+8D08 "贈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to give as a gift" or "to present," often carrying a connotation of respect or formality in the act of offering something to another person. This ideograph is used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean contexts, where it appears in words related to bestowing presents, donating, or conferring honors. In its component structure, the left side features the radical for "shell" or "money," hinting at the historical exchange of valuables, while the right side provides phonetic and semantic depth. Overall, "贈" embodies the cultural practice of gift-giving as a meaningful social gesture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8D08 |
| 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 | 贈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 贈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB4 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8D08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008D08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8d08 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C3D8 |
| kCCCII | 215A3B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7925 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7925 |
| kCangjie | BCCWA |
| kCantonese | zang6 |
| kCihaiT | 1279.103 |
| kCowles | 4493 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1678.190 |
| kDefinition | give present; bestow, confer |
| kEACC | 4B5A3B |
| kFanqie | 昨亘 |
| kFenn | 832G |
| kFennIndex | 551.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6886.6 |
| kGB1 | 5289 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0884j |
| kHangul | 증:0E |
| kHanYu | 63658.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63658.090:zèng |
| kHKGlyph | 3942 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1678.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63658.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1212.150 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5479 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C3D8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4223 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EACE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-717C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7925 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6839 |
| kJapanese | ゾウ ソウ おくる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | OKURU |
| kJapaneseOn | ZOU SOU |
| kJis0 | 3403 |
| kKangXi | 1212.150 |
| kKorean | CUNG |
| kLau | 1344 |
| kMandarin | zèng |
| kMatthews | 6769 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3275 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025122 MJ030301:FE00 MJ025122:E0102 MJ030301:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 36920' 36929:FE00 36920':E0102 36929:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4525 4527 |
| kPhonetic | 68 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2819+154.7.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 154.12 |
| kSBGY | 433.42 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "赠" U+8D60 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 670.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zèng粵zang6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6362 |
| kTang | *dzhə̀ng |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tặng |
| kXerox | 251:170 |