U+2F8D "⾍" Kangxi Radical Insect Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⾍
U+2F8D "⾍" Kangxi Radical Insect is one of the 214 radicals in the Kangxi system, and it represents the concept of insects, reptiles, or crawling creatures. This radical is historically derived from a pictogram of a worm or snake, and in modern Chinese and Japanese, it appears as a component in characters related to bugs, worms, and other small animals, such as 虫 (chóng) in Chinese or 虫 (mushi) in Japanese. Its usage in compound characters often conveys meanings associated with venom, stinging, or the movement of creeping life forms, making it a foundational element in the written representation of the natural world.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F8D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Insect |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "虫" U+866B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⾍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⾍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBE 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F8D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f8d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "虫" U+866B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "虫" U+866B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Script | Han |
| Script Extensions | Han |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |
| Equivalent Unified Ideograph | 866B |
| Radical | Yes |