U+86F3 "蛳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+86F3 "蛳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of freshwater snail, specifically the kind known as "snail" or "river snail," often used in culinary contexts, particularly in the term "螺蛳" (luó sī), which denotes edible snails found in rice paddies and rivers. It belongs to the radical 虫 (insect or creature) and historically appears in classical texts and modern Chinese as a component of regional cuisine terms. The character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, representing a logographic writing system used across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+86F3
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	蛳
HTML Hex Encoding	蛳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9B 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x86F3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000086F3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u86f3

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	292B55
kCangjie	LILLB
kCantonese	si1
kDefinition	kind of snail with spiral shell
kEACC	292B55
kFourCornerCode	5112
kGB0	8247
kHanYu	42848.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42848.160
kIRGKangXi	1083.151
kIRG_GSource	G0-724F
kTGH	2013:5145
kKangXi	1083.151
kMainlandTelegraph	5825
kMandarin	sī
kRSUnicode	142.6
kSMSZD2003Index	612.17
kTGHZ2013	346.080:sī
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"螄" U+8784 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1084.150:sī