U+8D2C "贬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
贬
U+8D2C "贬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to reduce," "to censure," or "to lower in rank or value." It is composed of the radical for "shell" or "money" (贝, bèi) combined with the phonetic component 乏 (fá), which suggests a sense of lacking or depletion. In classical and modern usage, the character appears in words like 贬低 (biǎndī, to belittle), 贬值 (biǎnzhí, to devalue or depreciate), and 贬官 (biǎnguān, to demote an official). Thus, the character conveys the concept of diminishing something whether it be worth, status, or reputation, reflecting a loss or a negative judgment.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8D2C |
| 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 | 贬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 贬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB4 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8D2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008D2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8d2c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27597B |
| kCangjie | BOHIO |
| kCantonese | bin2 |
| kDefinition | decrease, lower; censure, criticize |
| kEACC | 27597B |
| kFourCornerCode | 7283 |
| kGB0 | 1765 |
| kHanYu | 63628.040 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63628.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1213.211 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3161 |
| kTGH | 2013:1116 |
| kKangXi | 1213.211 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6312 |
| kMandarin | biǎn |
| kPhonetic | 359* |
| kRSUnicode | 154'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 021.050:biǎn |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "貶" U+8CB6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0065.090:biǎn |