U+8682 "蚂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蚂
U+8682 "蚂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used as a component in the written form of the word for "ant" (蚂蚁) and also appears in the name of the insect "dragonfly" (蜻蜓) when combined with other characters. It consists of a radical for "insect" on the left side and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its classification as a semantic phonetic compound in traditional Chinese character structure. This character is commonly encountered in modern Chinese texts and is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs standard, where it is used across multiple languages including Chinese and Japanese, though it may carry different meanings or pronunciations in each.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8682 |
| 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 | 蚂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蚂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9A 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8682 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008682 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8682 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275725 |
| kCangjie | LINVM |
| kCantonese | maa5 |
| kDefinition | ant; leech |
| kEACC | 275725 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5712 |
| kGB0 | 3476 |
| kHanYu | 42836.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | mǎ(40) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42836.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1077.111 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-426C |
| kTGH | 2013:1501 |
| kKangXi | 1077.111 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5818 |
| kMandarin | mǎ |
| kPhonetic | 863* |
| kRSUnicode | 142.3 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 609.04 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 241.010:mǎ 241.040:mà |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "螞" U+879E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0753.080:mā 0758.030:mǎ 0758.060:mà |