U+8D4F "赏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
赏
U+8D4F "赏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to reward," "to bestow," or "to appreciate," and is commonly used in modern and classical Chinese texts. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, which encodes Han characters shared across these languages. In structure, "赏" combines the semantic component "贝" (shell, often associated with wealth or value) on top and the phonetic element "尚" below, reflecting its meaning related to giving or honoring someone with a gift or recognition. This character appears frequently in contexts such as "欣赏" (to enjoy or admire) and "赏赐" (to grant a reward), and it carries cultural connotations of praise and generosity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8D4F |
| 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 | 赏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 赏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB5 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8D4F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008D4F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8d4f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275A32 |
| kCangjie | FBRBO |
| kCantonese | soeng2 |
| kDefinition | reward, grant, bestow; appreciate |
| kEACC | 275A32 |
| kFourCornerCode | 9080 |
| kGB0 | 4145 |
| kHanYu | 63648.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shǎng(58) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63648.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1213.211 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-494D |
| kTGH | 2013:2609 |
| kKangXi | 1213.211 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6339 |
| kMandarin | shǎng |
| kPhonetic | 1167* |
| kRSUnicode | 154'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 326.080:shǎng |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "賞" U+8CDE CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1002.040:shǎng |