U+8688 "蚈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8688 "蚈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram from the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) script family, representing a type of mythical creature often associated with the "centipede" or "millipede" in traditional texts, though its exact meaning can vary. It is composed of the radical for "insect" or "worm" (虫) combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its classification among arthropod-related characters. In ancient Chinese literature, such as the "Shuowen Jiezi", it appears in descriptions of supernatural or symbolic beings, and it is rarely used in modern everyday writing, making it a specialized and obscure character within the CJK Unicode repertoire.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8688
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	蚈
HTML Hex Encoding	蚈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9A 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8688
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008688
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8688

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

kAlternateTotalStrokes	12:J
kCangjie	LIMT
kCantonese	hin1
kDaeJaweon	1546.140
kFanqie	苦堅
kGB3	6557
kGSR	0239f
kHanYu	42836.080 42846.160
kHanyuPinyin	42836.080,42846.160:qiān
kIRGDaeJaweon	1546.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42836.080
kIRGKangXi	1077.160
kIRG_GSource	G3-6159
kIRG_JSource	J1-5A6D
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7137
kIRG_KSource	K2-5B47
kIRG_TSource	T4-2F6D
kJapanese	ケン
kJapaneseKun	HOTARU YASUDE
kJapaneseOn	KEN
kJis1	5877
kKangXi	1077.160
kMandarin	qiān
kMojiJoho	MJ023338 MJ023338:E0101 MJ023337:E0102
kMorohashi	33049 33049:E0101 32847:E0102
kPhonetic	617
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22425+142.6.6
kRSUnicode	142.6
kSBGY	135.16
kTotalStrokes	10