U+8693 "蚓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8693 "蚓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes the concept of an earthworm, a slender, burrowing annelid worm often found in soil. In classical and modern Chinese, it appears predominantly within the compound word "蚯蚓" (qiū yǐn), which is the standard term for earthworm, reflecting its association with fertility and soil aeration in agricultural contexts. The character itself is comprised of the radical "虫" (insect or worm) on the left, indicating its connection to small creatures, and the phonetic component "引" (to pull or guide) on the right, which suggests a possible link to the worm's stretching or contracting movement. As a components of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs, it is used across multiple East Asian writing systems, including traditional Chinese and Japanese, where it retains the same core meaning. This character thus serves as a precise linguistic symbol for a common yet ecologically vital invertebrate.

General Properties

Code Point U+8693
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 蚓
HTML Hex Encoding 蚓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9A 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8693
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008693
C/C++/Java Escape \u8693

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 B043
kCCCII 215653
kCNS1986 1-5828
kCNS1992 1-5828
kCangjie LINL
kCantonese jan5
kCihaiT 1187.202
kDaeJaweon 1546.290
kDefinition earthworm
kEACC 215653
kFanqie 余忍
kFourCornerCode 5210.0
kGB0 8230
kGB1 8230
kGSR 0371c
kHangul 인:0N
kHanYu 42841.020
kHanyuPinlu yǐn(16)
kHanyuPinyin 42841.020:yǐn
kHKGlyph 3590
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1546.290
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42841.020
kIRGKangXi 1077.350
kIRG_GSource G0-723E
kIRG_HSource HB1-B043
kIRG_JSource J0-694E
kIRG_KPSource KP0-FCD2
kIRG_KSource K0-6C62
kIRG_TSource T1-5828
kIRG_VSource V0-4274
kJapanese イン コン キン ケン みみず
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:1903
kJapaneseKun MIMIZU
kJapaneseOn IN
kJis0 7346
kKangXi 1077.350
kKarlgren 271
kKorean IN
kMainlandTelegraph 5727
kMandarin yǐn
kMatthews 7430
kMeyerWempe 3828
kMojiJoho MJ023353
kMorohashi 32866
kNelson 4120
kPhonetic 1490
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6485+142.6.4
kRSUnicode 142.4
kSBGY 276.34
kSemanticVariant U+87BE<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index 609.15
kSMSZD2003Readings yǐn粵jan5
kTaiwanTelegraph 5727
kTGHZ2013 438.040:yǐn
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kVietnamese rận
kXerox 272:326
kXHC1983 1381.030:yǐn