U+871F "蜟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+871F "蜟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character classified under the radical for insects or creatures, and it represents the chrysalis or pupal stage of an insect, specifically the dormant form between larva and adult. This character is used in classical and modern Chinese texts, particularly in entomological contexts or poetic descriptions of transformation and renewal. Its structure combines the insect radical with a phonetic component, reflecting the logographic nature of Chinese writing where meaning and sound are integrated.

General Properties

Code Point	U+871F
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	蜟
HTML Hex Encoding	蜟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9C 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x871F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000871F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u871f

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	253924
kCangjie	LIYIB
kCantonese	juk6
kDaeJaweon	1553.100
kFanqie	余六
kGB3	6639
kHanYu	42865.140
kHanyuPinyin	42865.140:yù
kIRGDaeJaweon	1553.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42865.140
kIRGKangXi	1086.040
kIRG_GSource	G3-6247
kIRG_JSource	J14-7756
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-71EB
kIRG_KSource	K2-5C2F
kIRG_TSource	T4-4055
kJapanese	イク
kJIS0213	2,87,54
kJapaneseOn	IKU
kJis1	5892
kKangXi	1086.040
kMandarin	yù
kMojiJoho	MJ023504
kMorohashi	33147
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18597+142.6.8
kRSUnicode	142.8
kSBGY	455.61
kTotalStrokes	14