U+8D54 "赔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
赔
U+8D54 "赔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to compensate," "to pay damages," or "to apologize," conveying both financial restitution and the act of making amends. It is composed of the radical 贝 (bèi), which relates to wealth or money, and the phonetic component 咅 (pǒu), which hints at its pronunciation as "péi" in Mandarin. This character is commonly used in formal and legal contexts, such as in terms for compensation or reparations, and also appears in everyday expressions like "道歉" (to apologize) when combined with other characters. Its structure reflects the cultural emphasis on monetary justice and restorative acknowledgment within Chinese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8D54 |
| 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 | 赔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 赔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB5 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8D54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008D54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8d54 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275A2C |
| kCangjie | BOYTR |
| kCantonese | pui4 |
| kDefinition | indemnify, suffer loss |
| kEACC | 275A2C |
| kFourCornerCode | 7086 |
| kGB0 | 3766 |
| kHanYu | 63650.110 |
| kHanyuPinlu | péi(24) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63650.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1213.211 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4562 |
| kTGH | 2013:2654 |
| kKangXi | 1213.211 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6341 |
| kMandarin | péi |
| kPhonetic | 1028* |
| kRSUnicode | 154'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 277.170:péi |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "賠" U+8CE0 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0859.040:péi |