U+8D3C "贼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8D3C "贼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese that generally conveys the meanings of thief, traitor, or villain. In classical contexts, it can also refer to a destructive or harmful person, and it carries connotations of treachery or wrongdoing. The character combines the radical for "shell" or "money" with components suggesting violence or harm, reflecting its historical association with theft and betrayal. It appears in modern usage in words like "贼心" which means treacherous intent, and "捉贼" meaning to catch a thief.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8D3C
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	贼
HTML Hex Encoding	贼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB4 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8D3C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008D3C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8d3c

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	275A23
kCangjie	BOIJ
kCantonese	caak6
kDefinition	thief, traitor; kill
kEACC	275A23
kFourCornerCode	7385
kGB0	5284
kHanYu	63637.020
kHanyuPinlu	zéi(31)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63637.020
kIRGKangXi	1213.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-5474
kTGH	2013:1924
kKangXi	1213.211
kMainlandTelegraph	6329
kMandarin	zéi
kPhonetic	20*
kRSUnicode	154'.6
kTGHZ2013	460.160:zéi
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"賊" U+8CCA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1445.060:zéi