U+86A4 "蚤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蚤
U+86A4 "蚤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "flea," referring to the small, blood-feeding insect that is a common parasite on animals and humans. It is composed of the radical for insect (虫) as a semantic component, hinting at its entomological meaning, and a phonetic element that contributes to its pronunciation, which is "zǎo" in Mandarin Chinese. Beyond its literal definition, the character also appears in classical and modern Chinese idioms, such as "蚤虱" (fleas and lice), to denote minor pests or annoyances, and it can function as a variant for the character 早 (zǎo, meaning "early") in some historical texts due to phonetic borrowing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+86A4 |
| 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 | 蚤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蚤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9A 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x86A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000086A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u86a4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B044 |
| kCCCII | 215654 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5829 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5829 |
| kCangjie | EILMI |
| kCantonese | zou2 |
| kCihaiT | 1187.305 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1547.190 |
| kDefinition | flea; louse |
| kEACC | 215654 |
| kFanqie | 子晧 |
| kFenn | 787F |
| kFennIndex | 546.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1713.6 |
| kGB0 | 5273 |
| kGB1 | 5273 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kGSR | 1112d |
| kHangul | 조:0N |
| kHanYu | 42836.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42836.030:zǎo,zhǎo |
| kHKGlyph | 3591 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1547.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42836.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1078.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5469 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B044 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4742 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E9B5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-705E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5829 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6578 |
| kJapanese | ソウ ショウ のみ はやい |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1749 |
| kJapaneseKun | NOMI HAYAI |
| kJapaneseOn | SOU |
| kJis0 | 3934 |
| kKangXi | 1078.200 |
| kKorean | CO |
| kLau | 1533 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5734 |
| kMandarin | zǎo |
| kMatthews | 6724 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3408c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023372 MJ023372:E0101 MJ058609:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 32893 32893:E0101 |
| kNelson | 4122 |
| kPhonetic | 49 224 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3320+142.6.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.4 |
| kSBGY | 302.43 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+45A3<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 609.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zǎo粵zou2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5734 |
| kTang | tzɑ̌u |
| kTGHZ2013 | 459.040:zǎo |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tao |
| kXerox | 261:312 |
| kXHC1983 | 1442.040:zǎo |