U+873B "蜻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蜻
U+873B "蜻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents the concept of a dragonfly, as seen in the common compound word "蜻蜓" (qīngtíng) meaning dragonfly in Mandarin. Its semantic radical "虫" indicates its association with insects or creatures, while the phonetic component "青" (qīng, meaning green or blue) provides a clue to its pronunciation and often contributes to its descriptive role in nature vocabulary. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, meaning it is used across multiple East Asian writing systems, though its meaning and usage remain most prominent in Chinese texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+873B |
| 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 | 蜻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蜻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9C 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x873B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000873B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u873b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BB66 |
| kCCCII | 215671 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6A6E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6A6E |
| kCangjie | LIQMB |
| kCantonese | cing1 |
| kCihaiT | 1192.306 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1554.240 |
| kDefinition | dragonfly |
| kEACC | 4B5671 |
| kFanqie | 子盈 倉經 |
| kFenn | 82H |
| kFennIndex | 79.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5512.7 |
| kGB0 | 8263 |
| kGB1 | 8263 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0812e' |
| kHangul | 청:1N |
| kHanYu | 42858.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | qīng(21) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42858.080:jīng,qīng |
| kHKGlyph | 3620 |
| kIICore | AGTJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1554.240 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42858.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1088.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-725F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BB66 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6971 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-71E1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6F5B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6A6E |
| kJapanese | セイ ショウ ジョウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3105 |
| kJapaneseKun | TONBO |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI |
| kJis0 | 7381 |
| kKangXi | 1088.010 |
| kKorean | CHENG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5808 |
| kMandarin | qīng |
| kMatthews | 1151 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3380 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023536 MJ023536:E0102 MJ023537:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 33203 33203:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4157 |
| kPhonetic | 203 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6520+142.6.8 C+6520+174.8.6 V+14211+142.6.8 V+14211+174.8.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.8 |
| kSBGY | 190.20 193.34 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 615.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qīng粵cing1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5808 |
| kTang | tseng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 303.130:qīng |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 260:273 |
| kXHC1983 | 0932.020:qīng |