U+8733 "蜳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8733 "蜳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that appears in ancient texts and represents a type of insect, specifically a kind of worm or grub, though its precise modern usage is rare and often limited to historical or literary contexts. This character is composed of the radical "虫" (insect) on the left, combined with the phonetic component "敦" on the right, which can imply meanings related to solidity or bluntness. In classical Chinese literature, such as in the works of Zhuangzi, "蜳" appears in the term "蜳螏" to describe a mythical or obscure creature, but it is not commonly used in everyday modern Mandarin. As a result, it remains a specialized glyph within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, primarily of interest to etymologists, sinologists, and enthusiasts of archaic scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+8733
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 蜳
HTML Hex Encoding 蜳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9C 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8733
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008733
C/C++/Java Escape \u8733

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 E3D5
kCCCII 232A40
kCNS1986 2-4D5C
kCNS1992 2-4D5C
kCangjie LIYRD
kCantonese deon1
kCihaiT 1192.602
kDaeJaweon 1554.140
kFourCornerCode 5014.7
kGB5 6562
kGSR 0464o
kHanYu 42865.080
kHanyuPinyin 42865.080:dūn,tūn
kIRGDaeJaweon 1554.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42865.080
kIRGKangXi 1087.200
kIRG_GSource G5-615E
kIRG_HSource HB2-E3D5
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023525
kIRG_KPSource KP1-71C0
kIRG_KSource K2-5C3D
kIRG_TSource T2-4D5C
kJapanese トン テン イン ジュン
kKangXi 1087.200
kMandarin dūn
kMojiJoho MJ023525
kMorohashi 33187
kPhonetic 316
kRSUnicode 142.8
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 HMT