U+868F "蚏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蚏
U+868F "蚏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character that falls within the range of characters representing insects or small creatures, often categorized under the radical for "insect" or "worm" (虫). Its precise meaning is not well documented in common modern dictionaries, though it is thought to be a variant or ancient form of the character "越" (yuè), which can mean to exceed, to cross over, or to leap, potentially linking it to a specific kind of arthropod or to a metaphorical sense of movement. This character is largely absent from everyday usage and appears primarily in historical or specialized linguistic texts, making it an interesting but rarely encountered glyph within the vast set of CJK unified ideographs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+868F |
| 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 | 蚏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蚏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9A 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x868F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000868F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u868f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-336F |
| kCNS1992 | 3-336F |
| kCangjie | LIB |
| kCantonese | jyut6 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1546.210 |
| kFanqie | 王伐 |
| kGB3 | 6567 |
| kHanYu | 42840.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42840.010:yuè |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1546.210 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42840.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1077.250 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6163 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-023349 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-713F |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-336F |
| kJapanese | エツ |
| kKangXi | 1077.250 |
| kMandarin | yuè |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023349 |
| kMorohashi | 32855 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.4 |
| kSBGY | 478.07 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |