U+8725 "蜥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8725 "蜥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of a lizard, specifically used in the term "蜥蜴" (xīyì), which means "lizard" in Mandarin. This ideograph belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, and its structure combines the radical for "insect" or "reptile" (虫) on the left with the phonetic component "析" (xī) on the right, reflecting a typical logographic composition where meaning and sound are integrated. Historically, it has been used in classical and modern Chinese texts to refer to various small, scaly reptiles, and it remains a standard character in modern Chinese writing and typography.

General Properties

Code Point U+8725
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 蜥
HTML Hex Encoding 蜥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9C 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8725
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008725
C/C++/Java Escape \u8725

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 BB68
kCCCII 215673
kCNS1986 1-6A70
kCNS1992 1-6A70
kCangjie LIDHL
kCantonese sik1
kCihaiT 1192.503
kDaeJaweon 1553.190
kDefinition lizard
kEACC 215673
kFanqie 先擊
kFourCornerCode 5212.1
kGB0 8265
kGB1 8265
kHangul 석:1N
kHanYu 42859.140
kHanyuPinyin 42859.140:xī
kHKGlyph 3622
kIICore AGTJHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 1553.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42859.140
kIRGKangXi 1086.140
kIRG_GSource G0-7261
kIRG_HSource HB1-BB68
kIRG_JSource J0-6972
kIRG_KPSource KP1-71D5
kIRG_KSource K1-6435
kIRG_TSource T1-6A70
kJapanese セキ シャク
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:5705
kJapaneseOn SEKI
kJis0 7382
kKangXi 1086.140
kKorean SEK
kLau 2782
kMainlandTelegraph 5782
kMandarin
kMatthews 2492
kMeyerWempe 2802d
kMojiJoho MJ023510
kMorohashi 33157
kNelson 4155
kPhonetic 207 1192
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6521+142.6.8
kRSUnicode 142.8
kSMSZD2003Index 614.19
kSMSZD2003Readings xī粵sik1
kTaiwanTelegraph 5782
kTGHZ2013 393.010:xī
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 GHJMT
kXerox 266:274
kXHC1983 1228.130:xī