U+8723 "蜣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蜣
U+8723 "蜣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character known as "qiāng" in Mandarin, and it refers to the dung beetle, specifically the species commonly called the "qiāngláng" or "dung beetle" in English. This ideograph belongs to the radical for insects or worms, represented by the component "虫" on the left side, while the right side "羌" provides the phonetic clue for its pronunciation. In traditional Chinese culture, the dung beetle is often associated with diligence and transformation due to its habit of rolling balls of dung, and it appears in classical texts and natural observations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8723 |
| 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 | 蜣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蜣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9C 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8723 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008723 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8723 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E3D6 |
| kCCCII | 232A43 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4D5D |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4D5D |
| kCangjie | LITGU |
| kCantonese | goeng1 |
| kCihaiT | 1192.502 |
| kCowles | 1643 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1553.160 |
| kDefinition | dung beetle |
| kEACC | 232A43 |
| kFanqie | 去羊 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5811.1 |
| kGB0 | 8262 |
| kGB1 | 8262 |
| kGSR | 0712e |
| kHanYu | 42857.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42857.100:qiāng |
| kIICore | CT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1553.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42857.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1086.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-725E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E3D6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-7758 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-71AF |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5C32 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4D5D |
| kJapanese | キョウ コウ キャク カク |
| kTGH | 2013:5463 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,87,56 |
| kJapaneseOn | KYOU KOU KYAKU KAKU |
| kJis1 | 5894 |
| kKangXi | 1086.110 |
| kKarlgren | 354 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5780 |
| kMandarin | qiāng |
| kMatthews | 667 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1130a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023508 |
| kMorohashi | 33154 |
| kPhonetic | 608 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+18599+142.6.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.8 |
| kSBGY | 173.39 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 614.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qiāng粵goeng1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5780 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 298.050:qiāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 300:315 |
| kXHC1983 | 0916.040:qiāng |