U+86BF "蚿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蚿

U+86BF "蚿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that refers to a type of mythical or legendary insect, often identified in classical texts as a kind of centipede or a creature with a hard shell, such as the millipede. This character is composed of the radical 虫 (insect or creature) on the left and the phonetic component 玄 (xuán, meaning dark or mysterious) on the right, suggesting its association with small, creepy animals in nature. Historically, it appears in ancient Chinese literature, like the "Erya" dictionary, where it is defined as a "horse beetle" or a similar arthropod, and it is considered a rare or obscure component of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, used primarily in classical contexts rather than modern everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+86BF
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	蚿
HTML Hex Encoding	蚿
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9A 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x86BF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000086BF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u86bf

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	D77D
kCCCII	23294B
kCNS1986	2-3922
kCNS1992	2-3922
kCangjie	LIYVI
kCantonese	jin4
kCihaiT	1188.101
kDaeJaweon	1548.210
kDefinition	millipede
kEACC	23294B
kFanqie	胡田
kFourCornerCode	5013.2
kGB3	6586
kGSR	0366i
kHanYu	42845.040
kHanyuPinyin	42845.040:xián
kIRGDaeJaweon	1548.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42845.040
kIRGKangXi	1080.030
kIRG_GSource	G3-6176
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D77D
kIRG_JSource	J1-5A5E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7161
kIRG_KSource	K2-5B65
kIRG_TSource	T2-3922
kJapanese	ケンゲン
kJapaneseOn	KEN GEN
kJis1	5862
kKangXi	1080.030
kMandarin	xián
kMatthews	2665
kMojiJoho	MJ023400
kMorohashi	32946
kPhonetic	1623
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22417+95.5.6 C+22417+142.6.5
kRSUnicode	142.5
kSBGY	133.43
kSMSZD2003Index	610.15
kSMSZD2003Readings	xián粵jin4
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	321:115