U+8698 "蚘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蚘

U+8698 "蚘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that historically refers to a type of parasitic roundworm, specifically the Ascaris lumbricoides, which infests the human intestine. This ideograph is composed of the radical for "insect" or "worm" (虫) combined with a phonetic component, and it appears in classical Chinese medical texts such as the Shang Han Lun, where it is used to describe symptoms of roundworm infestation. Though seldom used in modern standard Chinese, it remains a part of the Unicode standard as a historical and scholarly reference, linking digital text encoding to ancient medical knowledge.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8698
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	蚘
HTML Hex Encoding	蚘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9A 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8698
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008698
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8698

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	D3CA
kCCCII	232939
kCNS1986	2-326C
kCNS1992	2-326C
kCangjie	LIIKU
kCantonese	wui4
kCihaiT	1187.206
kDaeJaweon	1547.040
kDefinition	tapeworm
kEACC	232939
kFanqie	戶恢
kFourCornerCode	5311.4
kHanYu	42837.120
kHanyuPinyin	42837.120:huì,yóu
kIRGDaeJaweon	1547.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42837.120
kIRGKangXi	1078.030
kIRG_GSource	GE-4B24
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D3CA
kIRG_JSource	J13-7B54
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7135
kIRG_KSource	K2-5B4E
kIRG_TSource	T2-326C
kJapanese	カイユウウエ
kJIS0213	1,91,52
kJapaneseKun	KAICHIYUU HARANOMUSHI
kJapaneseOn	KAI YUU
kJis1	5847
kKangXi	1078.030
kMandarin	huí
kMatthews	2314
kMeyerWempe	3854k
kMojiJoho	MJ023358
kMorohashi	32876
kPhonetic	1511
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+15086+142.6.4
kRSUnicode	142.4
kSBGY	096.33
kSemanticVariant	U+75D0<kMeyerWempe U+86D4<kMatthews U+86D5<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	610.06
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	301:150
kXHC1983	0503.011:huí