U+86F4 "蛴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蛴
U+86F4 "蛴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (simplified form) that traditionally represents a type of grub or insect larva, specifically the larva of the scarab beetle, often used in classical texts such as the "Erya" to refer to the "蛴螬" (qí cáo), a pest found in soil. In modern Chinese, it retains this entomological meaning, appearing in agricultural contexts or in descriptions of underground larvae, and is predominantly read as "qí" in Mandarin. Its traditional counterpart is U+86F4's variant, but the character itself is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block as part of the Unicode Standard to support digital text representation of Chinese literature and everyday usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+86F4 |
| 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 | 蛴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蛴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9B 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x86F4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000086F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u86f4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 292C61 |
| kCangjie | LIYKL |
| kCantonese | cai4 |
| kDefinition | maggots, grubs |
| kEACC | 292C61 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5012 |
| kGB0 | 8251 |
| kHanYu | 42851.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42851.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1083.151 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7253 |
| kTGH | 2013:5149 |
| kKangXi | 1083.151 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 9242 |
| kMandarin | qí |
| kPhonetic | 56 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 612.16 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 292.070:qí |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "蠐" U+8810 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0895.020:qí |
| kStrange | I |