U+8644 "虄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

虄

U+8644 "虄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character, primarily found in classical or specialized texts rather than modern standard usage. Its structure combines the "insect" radical (虫) with a phonetic component, and its traditional meaning is associated with a type of insect or a specific crawling creature, though precise definitions are often debated due to its scarcity in contemporary dictionaries. This character is not included in common Chinese character sets like those used for daily communication; instead, it appears in historical or literary contexts, representing the vast and sometimes esoteric nature of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified character set that encodes thousands of ideographs for digital use.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8644
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	虄
HTML Hex Encoding	虄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x99 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8644
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008644
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8644

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

kCangjie	TLIM
kCantonese	saat3
kDaeJaweon	1538.330
kHanYu	53338.031
kIRGDaeJaweon	1538.330
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53338.031
kIRGKangXi	1072.241
kIRG_GSource	GK-6844
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-70B7
kIRG_KSource	K2-5B23
kKangXi	1072.241
kKorean	SAN
kMandarin	sà
kPseudoGB1	9342
kRSUnicode	140.20
kTotalStrokes	26