This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as sea shell; money, currency; Kangxi radical 154. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is bèi.
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+8C9D offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Radical 154 or radical shell (貝部) meaning "shell" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 277 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
贝, The simplified form of 貝, is the 76 indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form 貝 is listed as its associated indexing component.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
35997
UTF-8
E8 B2 9D
UTF-16
8C 9D
UTF-32
00 00 8C 9D
URL-Quoted
%E8%B2%9D
HTML hex reference
貝
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
è²
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
A8 A9
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
A8 A9
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
8A 4C
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
F8 AF
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
A8 A9
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
B3 AD
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
B3 AD
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
B3 AD
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
F8 AF
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
D8 90
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
D8 90
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 33 2D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 33 2D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 33 2D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 33 2D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 33 2D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 33 2D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 78 2F 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
F7 3F
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
8A 4C
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
8A 4C
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
8A 4C
Pīnyīn
bèi
RFC 5137
\u'8C9D'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u8C9D
C and C++
\u8C9D
C#
\u8C9D
CSS
\008C9D
Excel
=UNICHAR(35997)
Go
\u8C9D
JavaScript
\u8C9D
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{8c9d}
JSON
\u8C9D
Java
\u8C9D
Lua
\u{8C9D}
Matlab
char(35997)
Perl
"\x{8C9D}"
PHP
\u{8c9d}
PostgreSQL
U&'\8C9D'
PowerShell
`u{8C9D}
Python
\u8C9D
Ruby
\u{8c9d}
Rust
\u{8c9d}
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