U+872C "蜬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+872C "蜬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character classified under the radical for insects (虫) and composed of 14 strokes, with a phonetic component derived from "han" or "gan" in reconstructed Middle Chinese. Found in classical texts rather than modern usage, it refers to a small bivalve mollusk, specifically a type of freshwater clam or mussel often described in ancient lexicons and ceremonial records as inhabiting rivers and lakes. Its inclusion in the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs block preserves this obscure glyph for scholarly research, historical documentation, and digital representation of pre-modern Chinese literature.

General Properties

Code Point U+872C
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 蜬
HTML Hex Encoding 蜬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9C 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x872C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000872C
C/C++/Java Escape \u872c

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 E3E0
kCCCII 232A48
kCNS1986 2-4D67
kCNS1992 2-4D67
kCangjie LINUE
kCantonese ham4
kCihaiT 1192.205
kDaeJaweon 1554.050
kFanqie 胡男 古南
kFourCornerCode 5717.2
kGB5 6570
kHanYu 42867.010
kHanyuPinyin 42867.010:hán
kIRGDaeJaweon 1554.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42867.010
kIRGKangXi 1087.070
kIRG_GSource G5-6166
kIRG_HSource HB2-E3E0
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023518
kIRG_KPSource KP1-71E5
kIRG_KSource K2-5C37
kIRG_TSource T2-4D67
kJapanese カン ゴン
kKangXi 1087.070
kMandarin hán
kMojiJoho MJ023518
kMorohashi 33173
kRSUnicode 142.8
kSBGY 222.16 223.24
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 HMT