U+8C9E "貞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

貞
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+8C9E "貞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji and hanzi character that broadly signifies virtue, chastity, integrity, or moral uprightness, often with connotations of being unyielding or faithful. In classical Chinese and Japanese contexts, it is associated with concepts of loyalty, divination, and constancy, historically used in compound terms like "貞操" (chastity) or "貞節" (moral integrity). The character's structure combines the radical "貝" (shell, symbolizing value) with the phonetic component "卜" (divination), reflecting an ancient cultural emphasis on steadfastness and principled behavior.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+8C9E
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
貞
HTML Hex Encoding
貞
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0xB2 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8C9E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008C9E
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8c9e

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

kBigFive
AD73
kCCCII
215969
kCNS1986
1-5356
kCNS1992
1-5356
kCangjie
YBUC
kCantonese
zing1
kCihaiT
1268.301
kCowles
265
kDaeJaweon
1665.040
kDefinition
virtuous, chaste, pure; loyal
kEACC
215969
kFanqie
陟盈
kFenn
857E
kFennIndex
24.06
kFourCornerCode
2180.6
kGB1
5374
kGSR
0834g
kHangul
정:0E
kHanYu
63622.030
kHanyuPinyin
63622.030:zhēn,zhēng
kHKGlyph
3894
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
63622.030
kIRG_GSource
G1-556A
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AD73
kIRG_JSource
J0-4467
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E8E4
kIRG_KSource
K0-6F76
kIRG_TSource
T1-5356
kIRG_VSource
V1-677A
kJapanese
テイ チョウ ジョウ ただしい
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kJapaneseKun
TADASHII
kJapaneseOn
TEI JOU
kJis0
3671
kKangXi
1204.030
kKorean
CENG
kLau
1492
kMandarin
zhēn
kMatthews
346
kMeyerWempe
289
kMojiJoho
MJ024996
kMorohashi
36658
kNelson
0803
kPhonetic
198
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+3075+25.2.7 C+3075+154.7.2
kRSUnicode
154.2
kSBGY
191.13
kSimplifiedVariant
"贞" U+8D1E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index
663.01
kSMSZD2003Readings
zhēn粵zing1
kTaiwanTelegraph
6297
kTang
djiɛng
kTotalStrokes
9
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
trinh
kXerox
252:047