U+8684 "蚄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8684 "蚄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is composed of the radical for insect or worm (虫) on the left and a phonetic component on the right, typically identified as "方" (fang). In modern standard Mandarin, it is pronounced "fáng" and refers to a type of insect, specifically associated with a kind of locust or grasshopper, and it appears in classical Chinese texts as a term for a pest that damages crops. This character is rarely used in contemporary writing but is recognized in historical lexicons and certain technical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+8684
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 蚄
HTML Hex Encoding 蚄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9A 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8684
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008684
C/C++/Java Escape \u8684

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 232929
kCNS1986 E-3369
kCNS1992 3-3369
kCangjie LIYHS
kCantonese fong1
kCihaiT 1186.601
kDaeJaweon 1546.100
kFanqie 府良
kFourCornerCode 5012.7
kGB3 6569
kHanYu 42840.110
kHanyuPinyin 42840.110:fāng,bàng
kIRGDaeJaweon 1546.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42840.110
kIRGKangXi 1077.120
kIRG_GSource G3-6165
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023333
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7124
kIRG_KSource K2-5B43
kIRG_TSource T3-3369
kJapanese ホウ ボウ
kTGH 2013:6993
kKangXi 1077.120
kMandarin fāng
kMojiJoho MJ023333
kMorohashi 32843
kPhonetic 373
kRSUnicode 142.4
kSBGY 175.03
kTGHZ2013 093.070:fāng
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 G