U+8D1E "贞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8D1E "贞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily signifies concepts such as chastity, virtue, loyalty, or integrity, often associated with moral steadfastness and purity in Confucian traditions. It is commonly used in compound words like 贞洁 (chastity) and 贞操 (moral integrity), and appears in historical texts and personal names. The character is composed of the radical 贝 (shell, money) and the phonetic component 卜 (divination), reflecting its ancient roots in oracle bone script where it originally related to divination and omens.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8D1E
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	贞
HTML Hex Encoding	贞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB4 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8D1E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008D1E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8d1e

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	275969
kCangjie	YBO
kCantonese	zing1
kDefinition	virtuous, chaste, pure; loyal
kEACC	275969
kFourCornerCode	2180
kGB0	5374
kHanYu	10093.090 63623.010
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63623.010
kIRGKangXi	1213.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-556A
kTGH	2013:412
kKangXi	1213.211
kMainlandTelegraph	6297
kMandarin	zhēn
kPhonetic	198*
kRSUnicode	154'.2
kSMSZD2003Index	76.15
kTGHZ2013	471.010:zhēn
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"貞" U+8C9E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1467.020:zhēn