This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as mend, patch, fix, repair, restore. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is bǔ.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+88DC offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
35036
UTF-8
E8 A3 9C
UTF-16
88 DC
UTF-32
00 00 88 DC
URL-Quoted
%E8%A3%9C
HTML hex reference
補
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
補
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
B8 C9
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
B8 C9
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
95 E2
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
DC CD
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
B8 C9
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
CA E4
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
CA E4
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
CA E4
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
DC CD
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
D1 61
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
D1 61
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4A 64 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4A 64 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4A 64 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4A 64 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4A 64 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 4A 64 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 5C 4D 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
E9 5D
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
95 E2
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
95 E2
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
95 E2
Pīnyīn
bǔ
RFC 5137
\u'88DC'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u88DC
C and C++
\u88DC
C#
\u88DC
CSS
\0088DC
Excel
=UNICHAR(35036)
Go
\u88DC
JavaScript
\u88DC
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{88dc}
JSON
\u88DC
Java
\u88DC
Lua
\u{88DC}
Matlab
char(35036)
Perl
"\x{88DC}"
PHP
\u{88dc}
PostgreSQL
U&'\88DC'
PowerShell
`u{88DC}
Python
\u88DC
Ruby
\u{88dc}
Rust
\u{88dc}
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