U+873C "蜼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蜼

U+873C "蜼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese ideograph that represents a mythological or rare animal, often identified in classical texts as a type of monkey or a legendary beast with a long tail, such as the "wei" creature mentioned in ancient Chinese dictionaries like the Erya. Its radical is 虫 (insect or reptile), though its meaning extends beyond literal entomology to signify a creature associated with folklore, and it has homophonous connections to other characters used in historical names and place designations. This character is used primarily in traditional or literary contexts, including classical poetry and historical records, rather than in modern everyday Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+873C
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	蜼
HTML Hex Encoding	蜼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9C 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x873C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000873C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u873c

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

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kRSUnicode	142.8
kSBGY	249.09 356.09 437.05
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HMT