U+8D1F "负" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
负
U+8D1F "负" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese logograph that represents the concept of "negative," "to bear," or "to carry," and is commonly used in modern Mandarin to form words such as "负担" (burden) and "责任" (responsibility). Its structure consists of the semantic radical "贝" (shell, associated with wealth) atop a form that suggests a person carrying a load, reflecting its ancient derivation from a pictograph of a person with riches, which evolved to convey the sense of carrying or assuming something. In philosophical contexts, "负" also carries the meaning of "failure" or "defeat," as in "胜负" (victory or defeat), and it plays a key role in mathematical and logical expressions as a symbol for negative numbers or opposition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8D1F |
| 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 | 负 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 负 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB4 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8D1F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008D1F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8d1f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27596A |
| kCangjie | NBO |
| kCantonese | fu6 |
| kDefinition | load, burden; carry, bear |
| kEACC | 27596A |
| kFourCornerCode | 2780 |
| kGB0 | 2426 |
| kHanYu | 63624.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | fù(322) fu(25) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63624.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1213.211 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-383A |
| kTGH | 2013:503 |
| kKangXi | 1213.211 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6298 |
| kMandarin | fù |
| kRSUnicode | 154'.2 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 102.140:fù |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "負" U+8CA0 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0347.040:fù |