U+8D2A "贪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8D2A "贪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "greed" or "to be greedy," composed of the radical for "shell" or "money" (贝) above the character for "today" or "present" (今), which together suggest a visual metaphor of being obsessed with wealth in the current moment. In modern usage, it often appears in words like "tānlán" (贪婪, greed) or "tānxīn" (贪心, covetousness), and it carries a strong negative moral connotation, frequently used in discussing corruption, avarice, or excessive desire in both classical texts and contemporary language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8D2A
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	贪
HTML Hex Encoding	贪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB4 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8D2A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008D2A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8d2a

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	275970
kCangjie	XOINO
kCantonese	taam1
kDefinition	be greedy, covet; covetous
kEACC	275970
kFourCornerCode	8080
kGB0	4416
kHanYu	10143.110
kHanyuPinlu	tān(30)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10143.110
kIRGKangXi	1213.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-4C30
kTGH	2013:1176
kKangXi	1213.211
kMainlandTelegraph	6304
kMandarin	tān
kPhonetic	565*
kRSUnicode	154'.4
kSMSZD2003Index	29.09
kTGHZ2013	357.130:tān
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"貪" U+8CAA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1112.080:tān