U+86C5 "蛅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蛅

U+86C5 "蛅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character (hanzi) composed of the insect radical 虫 above the phonetic component 占, with its traditional reading in Mandarin as "zhān" or "chán." Historically, it refers to a type of caterpillar or insect larva, particularly one that is hairy or stinging, and appears in classical texts such as the Shuowen Jiezi dictionary where it is defined as a "stinging caterpillar." In modern usage, this character is extremely obscure and is not part of common vocabulary, appearing primarily in specialized linguistic or historical references.

General Properties

Code Point	U+86C5
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	蛅
HTML Hex Encoding	蛅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9B 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x86C5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000086C5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u86c5

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	D7A3
kCCCII	23295A
kCNS1986	2-3926
kCNS1992	2-3926
kCangjie	LIYR
kCantonese	jim4
kCihaiT	1189.106
kDaeJaweon	1548.340
kDefinition	a caterpillar
kFanqie	汝鹽
kFourCornerCode	5116.0
kGB3	6577
kHangul	점:1N
kHanYu	42842.140
kHanyuPinyin	42842.140:zhān
kIRGDaeJaweon	1548.340
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42842.140
kIRGKangXi	1080.170
kIRG_GSource	G3-616D
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D7A3
kIRG_JSource	J1-5A62
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7163
kIRG_KSource	K1-6C48
kIRG_TSource	T2-3926
kJapanese	ゼンネンセン
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseOn	ZEN NEN SEN
kJis1	5866
kKangXi	1080.170
kKorean	CEM
kMandarin	zhān
kMatthews	3070
kMojiJoho	MJ023406
kMorohashi	32961
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22418+142.6.5
kRSUnicode	142.5
kSBGY	227.06
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	HMT