U+8D18 "贘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8D18 "贘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that belongs to the set of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs, which encompass characters shared across these East Asian writing systems. This particular character, pronounced approximately as "shang" in Mandarin, is composed of the radical "貝" (shell or money) on the left, indicating a connection to wealth or trade, and the phonetic component "尚" on the right. Historically, it appears in classical Chinese texts but is not commonly used in modern writing, and its exact meaning is often listed as uncertain or obscure, sometimes interpreted as related to offering or bestowing goods in ancient contexts. As a result, it is infrequently encountered in contemporary digital communication, serving more as a linguistic artifact within specialized dictionaries or historical documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+8D18
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 贘
HTML Hex Encoding 贘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB4 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8D18
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008D18
C/C++/Java Escape \u8d18

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

kCCCII 23373E
kCNS1986 E-6650
kCNS1992 3-6650
kCangjie BCFBC
kCantonese soeng2
kEACC 23373E
kHanYu 63661.011
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63661.011
kIRGKangXi 1213.111
kIRG_GSource GE-4D78
kIRG_HSource H-9DDC
kIRG_JSource JMJ-025146
kIRG_TSource T3-6650
kKangXi 1213.111
kMandarin shǎng
kMojiJoho MJ025146
kRSUnicode 154.15
kTotalStrokes 22
kUnihanCore2020 H
kXerox 301:261