U+8739 "蜹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蜹
U+8739 "蜹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that traditionally refers to a type of small insect, often identified as a gnat, midge, or mosquito in classical texts and modern usage. This ideograph is composed of a "worm" or "insect" radical (虫) on the left, with a phonetic component (芮 or a related element) on the right, indicating both its semantic category and pronunciation. It appears in historical dictionaries and literature, such as the Shuowen Jiezi, where it describes biting insects that swarm in damp environments. In contemporary contexts, the character remains relevant in specialized zoological terminology or poetic descriptions, though it is less common in everyday Chinese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8739 |
| 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 | 蜹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蜹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9C 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8739 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008739 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8739 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 232A5A |
| kCNS1986 | E-494C |
| kCNS1992 | 3-494C |
| kCangjie | LITOB |
| kCantonese | jeoi6 |
| kCihaiT | 1193.302 |
| kCowles | 5242 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1554.220 |
| kDefinition | gnat, mosquito |
| kEACC | 232A5A |
| kFanqie | 而銳 以芮 如劣 |
| kGB3 | 6620 |
| kGSR | 0695s |
| kHanYu | 42853.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42853.090:ruì,wèi |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1554.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42853.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1087.340 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6234 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5B26 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-71ED |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5C3F |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-494C |
| kJapanese | ゼイ ネ ゼツ ネチ エイ エ ぶよ |
| kJapaneseKun | BUYO BUYU |
| kJapaneseOn | ZEI |
| kJis1 | 5906 |
| kKangXi | 1087.340 |
| kMandarin | ruì |
| kMatthews | 3169 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3925 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023533 MJ023533:E0101 MJ023534:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 33201:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4138 |
| kPhonetic | 1643 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19759+142.6.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.8 |
| kSBGY | 375.33 376.12 498.47 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+868B<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 615.14 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5761 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kXerox | 323:264 |
| kXHC1983 | 0977.111:ruì |