U+8696 "蚖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8696 "蚖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a type of aquatic creature, often interpreted as a kind of salamander or newt in classical texts, and it also appears in ancient mythology as a term for a venomous serpent or dragon-like being. This character is composed of the radical for insect or reptile and a phonetic component, and it is rarely used in modern Mandarin Chinese, primarily appearing in literary or historical contexts. Its inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs block ensures consistent encoding across East Asian scripts, preserving its semantic and etymological significance in classical sinological studies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8696
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	蚖
HTML Hex Encoding	蚖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9A 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8696
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008696
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8696

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

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kIRGKangXi	1077.400
kIRG_GSource	G3-615A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D3BB
kIRG_JSource	J1-5A4E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-713E
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kMorohashi	32871
kPhonetic	1624
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22408+142.6.4
kRSUnicode	142.4
kSBGY	113.12 124.14
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HMT