U+8D33 "贳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8D33 "贳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to borrow or to lend, especially in the context of extending credit or leasing goods, and it is composed of the radical for "shell" or "money" (贝) combined with the phonetic component (世), reflecting its traditional association with financial transactions. This character is used in classical and modern Chinese writing, appearing in historical texts and occasionally in contemporary contexts such as legal or business language, though it is less common than its simplified counterpart in everyday usage. Its structure and meaning tie it to the broader category of characters related to wealth, trade, and obligations, illustrating how ancient Chinese script encoded economic concepts through visual and phonetic elements.

General Properties

Code Point U+8D33
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 贳
HTML Hex Encoding 贳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xB4 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8D33
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008D33
C/C++/Java Escape \u8d33

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 29364E
kCangjie XPTBO
kCantonese sai3
kDefinition borrow; pardon; loan
kEACC 29364E
kFourCornerCode 4480
kGB0 7459
kHanYu 63632.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63632.010
kIRGKangXi 1213.211
kIRG_GSource G0-6A5B
kTGH 2013:4111
kKangXi 1213.211
kMainlandTelegraph 6322
kMandarin shì
kPhonetic 1115*
kRSUnicode 154'.5
kTGHZ2013 337.080:shì
kTotalStrokes 9
kTraditionalVariant "貰" U+8CB0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1051.010:shì