U+86CF "蛏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+86CF "蛏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally used to represent a type of edible razor clam or bivalve mollusk, commonly found in coastal regions of East Asia. Its meaning and usage are primarily tied to the name of this shellfish, often appearing in culinary and marine contexts, such as in the term for "razor clam" in Chinese. The character is composed of the radical for "insect" or "worm" on the left, which is frequently used in characters for small creatures, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation, which is roughly "cheng" in Mandarin.

General Properties

Code Point	U+86CF
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	蛏
HTML Hex Encoding	蛏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9B 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x86CF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000086CF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u86cf

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

kCCCII	292C55
kCangjie	LIEG
kCantonese	cing1
kDefinition	razor clam
kEACC	292C55
kFourCornerCode	5711
kGB0	8241
kHanYu	42846.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42846.070
kIRGKangXi	1081.111
kIRG_GSource	G0-7249
kIRG_TSource	TF-383A
kTGH	2013:4840
kKangXi	1081.111
kMainlandTelegraph	5855
kMandarin	chēng
kRSUnicode	142.5
kSMSZD2003Index	611.14
kTGHZ2013	043.030:chēng
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"蟶" U+87F6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0135.050:chēng