U+873F "蜿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+873F "蜿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used to describe a winding, serpentine, or meandering shape, such as the movement of a snake or a curving path. Found in classical and modern Chinese text, it often appears in compound words like "蜿蜒" which vividly depict the sinuous or twisting motion of dragons, rivers, or mountain ridges. This ideograph carries a strong visual and poetic connotation of flexibility and graceful curvature, deeply rooted in East Asian cultural and literary imagery.

General Properties

Code Point U+873F
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 蜿
HTML Hex Encoding 蜿
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9C 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x873F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000873F
C/C++/Java Escape \u873f

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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kCCCII 215670
kCNS1986 1-6A6C
kCNS1992 1-6A6C
kCangjie LIJNU
kCantonese jyun1
kCihaiT 1192.401
kDaeJaweon 1554.280
kDefinition creep, crawl
kEACC 215670
kFanqie 於袁 一丸 於阮
kFourCornerCode 5311.2
kGB0 8274
kGB1 8274
kHangul 원:1N
kHanYu 42866.050
kHanyuPinyin 42866.050:wān,wǎn
kHKGlyph 3618
kIICore AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 1554.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42866.050
kIRGKangXi 1088.080
kIRG_GSource G0-726A
kIRG_HSource HB1-BB64
kIRG_JSource J0-696F
kIRG_KPSource KP1-71EF
kIRG_KSource K1-6951
kIRG_TSource T1-6A6C
kJapanese エン ワン オン
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:5712
kJapaneseKun MIMIZU
kJapaneseOn EN WAN
kJis0 7379
kKangXi 1088.080
kKorean WEN
kMainlandTelegraph 5800
kMandarin wān
kMatthews 7025
kMojiJoho MJ023541
kMorohashi 33210
kNelson 4154
kPhonetic 1622A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6518+142.6.8
kRSUnicode 142.8
kSBGY 115.21 124.34 281.22
kSMSZD2003Index 615.08
kSMSZD2003Readings wān粵jyun1 wǎn粵jyun2
kTaiwanTelegraph 9150
kTGHZ2013 378.080:wān
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 GHJMT
kXerox 267:350
kXHC1983 1181.030:wān