U+8D31 "贱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8D31 "贱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that carries the primary meaning of "cheap" or "lowly," often used to describe something of low value or a person of humble or contemptible status. In modern Chinese, it is commonly found in words like "低贱" (lowly or degrading) and "贱卖" (to sell cheaply), and it also appears in compound expressions that imply disdain or inferiority. Historically, the character combines the radical for "shell" or "money" (贝) with a phonetic component, reflecting its original connection to low cost or worth in economic transactions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8D31
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	贱
HTML Hex Encoding	贱
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB4 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8D31
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008D31
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8d31

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	275A31
kCangjie	XBOIJ
kCantonese	zin6
kDefinition	mean, low; cheap, worthless
kEACC	275A31
kFourCornerCode	7385
kGB0	2890
kHanYu	63630.030
kHanyuPinlu	jiàn(29)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63630.030
kIRGKangXi	1213.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-3C7A
kTGH	2013:1520
kKangXi	1213.211
kMainlandTelegraph	6345
kMandarin	jiàn
kPhonetic	185*
kRSUnicode	154'.5
kSMSZD2003Index	666.04
kTGHZ2013	165.110:jiàn
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"賤" U+8CE4 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0555.010:jiàn