U+8D29 "贩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
贩
U+8D29 "贩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to buy and sell" or "to peddle," often referring to a vendor, trader, or merchant engaged in small-scale commerce. It is composed of the radical "贝" (shell, associated with wealth or trade) and the phonetic component "反," and is commonly used in modern Chinese in words like "贩卖" (to traffic or vend) and "小贩" (a street vendor or hawker). This character reflects the historical and cultural importance of trade in Chinese society, linking commercial exchange to both livelihood and everyday economic activity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8D29 |
| 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 | 贩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 贩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB4 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8D29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008D29 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8d29 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275972 |
| kCangjie | BOHE |
| kCantonese | faan3 |
| kDefinition | peddler, hawker, street merchant |
| kEACC | 275972 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7284 |
| kGB0 | 2323 |
| kHanYu | 63627.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | fàn(14) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63627.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1213.211 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3737 |
| kTGH | 2013:1115 |
| kKangXi | 1213.211 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6305 |
| kMandarin | fàn |
| kPhonetic | 339* |
| kRSUnicode | 154'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 092.100:fàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "販" U+8CA9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0305.030:fàn |