U+8681 "蚁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蚁
U+8681 "蚁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the meaning of "ant." It is composed of the radical for "insect" or "worm" on the left side and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its typical logographic structure in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) script system. This character is widely used in modern Chinese writing, appearing in words such as "蚂蚁" (mǎyǐ), which means "ant," and it also carries metaphorical or cultural significance in contexts like idioms or literature, often symbolizing diligence, small size, or collective effort.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8681 |
| 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 | 蚁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蚁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9A 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8681 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008681 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8681 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275735 |
| kCangjie | LIIK |
| kCantonese | ngai5 |
| kDefinition | ants |
| kEACC | 275735 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5410 |
| kGB0 | 5047 |
| kHanYu | 42835.140 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yǐ(40) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42835.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1077.111 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-524F |
| kTGH | 2013:1499 |
| kKangXi | 1077.111 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5852 |
| kMandarin | yǐ |
| kRSUnicode | 142.3 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蚁" U+8681 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 609.05 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 433.060:yǐ |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "蚁" U+8681 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "蟻" U+87FB CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1364.070:yǐ |