U+8F88 "辈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
辈
U+8F88 "辈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "generation," "lifetime," or "class of people," and is commonly used in terms like "前辈" (senior generation) or "晚辈" (junior generation). It is composed of the radical "车" (vehicle, cart) and the phonetic component "非," reflecting its historical form in traditional Chinese script, where it was written as "輩." This character appears in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems, with the simplified form "辈" being standard in mainland China. In computing, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is encoded for use in text processing, digital typography, and international communication involving Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8F88 |
| 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 | 辈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 辈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xBE 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8F88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008F88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8f88 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275B49 |
| kCangjie | LYKQ |
| kCantonese | bui3 |
| kDefinition | generation, lifetime; class |
| kEACC | 275B49 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1150 |
| kGB0 | 1718 |
| kHanYu | 53538.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | bèi(87) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53538.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1250.241 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3132 |
| kTGH | 2013:2602 |
| kKangXi | 1250.241 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6543 |
| kMandarin | bèi |
| kPhonetic | 365* |
| kRSUnicode | 159'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 015.030:bèi |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "輩" U+8F29 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0047.050:bèi |