U+8672 "虲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8672 "虲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character classified under the "CJK Unified Ideographs" block, which encompasses characters from East Asian scripts like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its precise meaning and usage are obscure, and it does not appear in common modern dictionaries or standard texts, suggesting it may be a historical variant, a dialectal character, or an archaic form linked to the radical for "insect" or "worm" (虫) combined with a phonetic component. Without widespread contemporary application, this character primarily exists as a digital artifact within the Unicode standard, preserved for potential historical or specialized linguistic studies.

General Properties

Code Point U+8672
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 虲
HTML Hex Encoding 虲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x99 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8672
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008672
C/C++/Java Escape \u8672

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

kCCCII 23287B
kCNS1986 E-6642
kCNS1992 3-6642
kCangjie LIY
kCantonese buk1
kEACC 23287B
kHanYu 42833.071
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42833.071
kIRGKangXi 1076.291
kIRG_GSource GE-4B21
kIRG_HSource H-99C8
kIRG_TSource T3-6642
kKangXi 1076.291
kMandarin xiā
kRSUnicode 142.2
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 H