U+8D4E "赎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8D4E "赎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to redeem or to ransom, often conveying the act of buying back something that was lost or pawned, such as a person from slavery or an item from a pawnshop. It is composed of the radical 贝 (bèi), which relates to money or贝壳 (shells used as currency), combined with the phonetic component 卖 (mài), which means to sell, highlighting its semantic connection to financial transactions involving exchange or repayment. This character appears in classical texts and modern usage, such as in the term 赎罪 (shú zuì), meaning to atone or redeem one's sin.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8D4E
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	赎
HTML Hex Encoding	赎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xB5 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8D4E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008D4E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8d4e

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	275A41
kCangjie	BOJNK
kCantonese	suk6
kDefinition	buy, redeem; ransom; atone for
kEACC	275A41
kFourCornerCode	7488
kGB0	4274
kHanYu	63647.010
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63647.010
kIRGKangXi	1213.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-4A6A
kTGH	2013:2652
kKangXi	1213.211
kMainlandTelegraph	6370
kMandarin	shú
kPhonetic	1395*
kRSUnicode	154'.8
kSMSZD2003Index	669.06
kTGHZ2013	341.080:shú
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"贖" U+8D16 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1066.020:shú