U+86B5 "蚵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蚵
U+86B5 "蚵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character classified under the radical for insect or worm, commonly pronounced "kē" in Mandarin and "o" or "ô" in Taiwanese Hokkien. It primarily refers to oysters or oyster shells, and is notably used in the name of the popular Taiwanese street food "蚵仔煎" (ô-á-tsian), which is an oyster omelette. In traditional Chinese cuisine and terminology, this character denotes the shellfish itself rather than a generic insect, highlighting its specific cultural and culinary significance in East Asian contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+86B5 |
| 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 | 蚵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蚵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9A 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x86B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000086B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u86b5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B348 |
| kCCCII | 215659 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5D2E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5D2E |
| kCangjie | LIMNR |
| kCantonese | ho4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1548.060 |
| kDefinition | oyster |
| kEACC | 215659 |
| kFanqie | 胡歌 口箇 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5112.0 |
| kGB0 | 8234 |
| kGB1 | 8234 |
| kHanYu | 42842.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42842.040:hé,kè |
| kIICore | AT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1548.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42842.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1079.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7242 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B348 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5A5A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7141 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5B5C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5D2E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-657B |
| kJapanese | カ ガ |
| kJapaneseOn | KA GA |
| kJis1 | 5858 |
| kKangXi | 1079.210 |
| kMandarin | hé |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023390 |
| kMorohashi | 32924 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+22414+142.6.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.5 |
| kSBGY | 161.20 419.29 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9169 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | hà |
| kXerox | 316:122 |