U+86CE "蛎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蛎
U+86CE "蛎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the oyster, a type of marine bivalve mollusk commonly known for its culinary and economic importance in East Asian cultures. In simplified Chinese, it is used in the word "牡蛎" (mǔlì), meaning oyster, and it is related to the character "蠣" from traditional Chinese and Japanese. This character belongs to the radical 虫 (insect or creature) and has historical usage in describing shellfish, particularly in coastal regions where oyster harvesting has been a traditional practice for centuries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+86CE |
| 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 | 蛎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蛎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9B 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x86CE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000086CE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u86ce |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27573C |
| kCangjie | LIMMS |
| kCantonese | lai6 |
| kDefinition | oyster |
| kEACC | 27573C |
| kFourCornerCode | 5112.7 |
| kGB0 | 8235 |
| kHanYu | 42842.060 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42842.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1081.111 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7243 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3342 |
| kJapanese | レイ かき |
| kTGH | 2013:4833 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAKI |
| kJapaneseOn | REI |
| kJis0 | 1934 |
| kKangXi | 1081.111 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5869 |
| kMandarin | lì |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023415 |
| kMorohashi | H541 |
| kPhonetic | 773* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1440+142.6.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 611.13 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 218.100:lì |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "蠣" U+8823 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GJ |
| kXHC1983 | 0697.170:lì |