U+8713 "蜓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8713 "蜓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents the meaning of a dragonfly, specifically referring to insects of the order Odonata, and is commonly used in classical and modern Chinese literature to denote this brightly colored flying insect. Often appearing in compound words such as "蜻蜓" (qīngtíng, meaning dragonfly), this ideograph is formed with a radical meaning insect and a phonetic component, reflecting its semantic category. The character holds cultural significance in East Asian poetry and art, where the dragonfly symbolizes agility, transformation, and the beauty of summer landscapes.

General Properties

Code Point U+8713
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 蜓
HTML Hex Encoding 蜓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9C 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8713
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008713
C/C++/Java Escape \u8713

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 B8BB
kCCCII 21566D
kCNS1986 1-6642
kCNS1992 1-6642
kCangjie LINKG
kCantonese ting4
kCihaiT 1191.401
kCowles 4363
kDaeJaweon 1552.210
kDefinition dragonfly
kEACC 21566D
kFanqie 特丁 徒鼎
kFenn 70I
kFennIndex 528.04
kFourCornerCode 5213.1
kGB0 8249
kGB1 8249
kGradeLevel 2
kGSR 0835n
kHanYu 42849.120
kHanyuPinlu tíng(21)
kHanyuPinyin 42849.120:diàn,tíng
kHKGlyph 3616
kIICore AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 1552.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42849.120
kIRGKangXi 1085.130
kIRG_GSource G0-7251
kIRG_HSource HB1-B8BB
kIRG_JSource J14-7754
kIRG_KPSource KP1-719C
kIRG_KSource K2-5C2B
kIRG_TSource T1-6642
kJapanese テン テイ デン ジョウ
kTGH 2013:2636
kJIS0213 2,87,52
kJapaneseOn TEN DEN TEI JOU
kJis1 5888
kKangXi 1085.130
kMainlandTelegraph 5767
kMandarin tíng
kMatthews 6412
kMeyerWempe 3108
kMojiJoho MJ023493
kMorohashi 33121
kNelson 4140
kPhonetic 1345
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+15092+142.6.7
kRSUnicode 142.7
kSBGY 194.31 288.48 319.57
kSMSZD2003Index 614.07
kSMSZD2003Readings tíng粵ting4
kTaiwanTelegraph 5767
kTGHZ2013 368.090:tíng
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 GHMT
kXerox 260:272
kXHC1983 1147.060:tíng