U+8685 "蚅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8685 "蚅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character composed of the radical for "insect" or "worm" (虫) combined with another component. Its precise meaning in ancient texts is not universally agreed upon, but it is generally considered to refer to a type of insect, possibly a caterpillar or a specific kind of harmful bug, and it appears in some classical Chinese dictionaries and lexicons from historical periods. Due to its obscurity, this character is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8685
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	蚅
HTML Hex Encoding	蚅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9A 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8685
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008685
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8685

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

kBigFive	D3C4
kCCCII	23293A
kCNS1986	2-3266
kCNS1992	2-3266
kCangjie	LIHSU
kCantonese	ak1
kCihaiT	1187.501
kDaeJaweon	1546.110
kFanqie	於革
kFourCornerCode	5111.2
kGB5	6475
kHanYu	42837.130
kHanyuPinyin	42837.130:è
kIRGDaeJaweon	1546.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42837.130
kIRGKangXi	1077.130
kIRG_GSource	G5-606B
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D3C4
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-023334
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-713B
kIRG_KSource	K2-5B44
kIRG_TSource	T2-3266
kJapanese	ヤク アク
kKangXi	1077.130
kMandarin	è
kMojiJoho	MJ023334
kMorohashi	32844
kRSUnicode	142.4
kSBGY	515.48
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HMT