U+8672 "虲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
虲
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
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 |