U+8DB8 "趸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
趸
U+8DB8 "趸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that generally means to wholesale, to buy or sell in bulk, or to gather and store goods in quantity. It is composed of the radical for "foot" or "leg" combined with additional strokes that convey the idea of accumulation or squatting, reflecting its traditional use in commercial contexts to describe the act of purchasing large lots of merchandise for later resale. In Modern Standard Chinese, it appears in terms like "duìdǔn" (对趸) meaning to buy or sell wholesale, and it contrasts with "língshòu" (零售) or retail, serving as a key term in trade and logistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8DB8 |
| 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 | 趸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 趸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB6 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8DB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008DB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8db8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275B26 |
| kCangjie | MSRYO |
| kCantonese | dan2 |
| kDefinition | sell or buy wholesale; store |
| kEACC | 275B26 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1080 |
| kGB0 | 8527 |
| kHanYu | 63688.050 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63688.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1221.351 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-753B |
| kTGH | 2013:4488 |
| kKangXi | 1221.351 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6485 |
| kMandarin | dǔn |
| kPhonetic | 866* |
| kRSUnicode | 157.3 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 674.11 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 083.140:dǔn |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "躉" U+8E89 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0277.090:dǔn |