U+8682 "蚂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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
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