U+8717 "蜗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8717 "蜗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that signifies a snail, specifically a land snail. It belongs to the radical for insects or worms, reflecting its biological association with small, shelled mollusks. In modern usage, "蜗" appears in words such as "蜗牛" meaning snail, and it can also metaphorically describe something slow or curled up, like in the term "蜗居" which refers to a cramped living space. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, used across multiple East Asian writing systems with similar meanings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8717
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	蜗
HTML Hex Encoding	蜗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9C 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8717
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008717
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8717

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	2D567B
kCangjie	LIROB
kCantonese	wo1
kDefinition	a snail, Eulota callizoma
kEACC	2D567B
kFourCornerCode	5612
kGB0	4647
kHanYu	42856.010
kHanyuPinlu	wō(11)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42856.010
kIRGKangXi	1085.261
kIRG_GSource	G0-4E4F
kTGH	2013:2923
kKangXi	1085.261
kMainlandTelegraph	5815
kMandarin	wō
kPhonetic	700*
kRSUnicode	142.7
kSMSZD2003Index	614.11
kTGHZ2013	387.050:wō
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"蝸" U+8778 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1209.020:wō