U+8CE2 "賢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+8CE2 "賢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character that fundamentally means "virtuous," "worthy," "talented," or "wise," and is commonly used in East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its structure combines the radical for "shell" or "money" (貝) with elements suggesting a hand or toil, reflecting its original association with wealth and hard work, which evolved to signify moral excellence and intelligence. In modern usage, it appears in words like "賢明" (wise) and "賢者" (sage), and it is often applied as a respectful descriptor for people of high ability or integrity.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8CE2
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
賢
HTML Hex Encoding
賢
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0xB3 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8CE2
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008CE2
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8ce2
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
BDE5
kCCCII
215A30
kCNS1986
1-6F30
kCNS1992
1-6F30
kCangjie
SEBUC
kCantonese
jin4
kCihaiT
1276.502
kCowles
1356
kDaeJaweon
1674.170
kDefinition
virtuous, worthy, good; able
kEACC
215A30
kFanqie
胡田
kFenn
643C
kFennIndex
178.06
kFourCornerCode
7780.6
kGB1
4745
kGradeLevel
5
kGSR
0368e
kHangul
현:0E
kHanYu
63646.060
kHanyuPinyin
63646.060:xián,xiàn
kHKGlyph
3932
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
63646.060
kIRG_GSource
G1-4F4D
kIRG_HSource
HB1-BDE5
kIRG_JSource
J0-382D
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F3CB
kIRG_KSource
K0-7A67
kIRG_TSource
T1-6F30
kIRG_VSource
V1-6831
kJapanese
ケン かしこい まさる
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kJapaneseKun
KASHIKOI MASARU
kJapaneseOn
KEN
kJis0
2413
kKangXi
1209.280
kKarlgren
369
kKorean
HYEN
kMandarin
xián
kMatthews
2671
kMojiJoho
MJ025076
kMorohashi
36822
kNelson
4517
kPhonetic
619
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1889+154.7.9
kRSUnicode
154.8
kSBGY
133.37
kSemanticVariant
U+8D12<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
668.02
kSMSZD2003Readings
xián粵jin4
kTaiwanTelegraph
6343
kTang
*hen
kTotalStrokes
15
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
hiền
kXerox
251:060
kXHC1983
1247.071:xián