U+868F "蚏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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

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