U+8742 "蝂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8742 "蝂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that historically refers to a type of insect, specifically a grain moth or a weevil that infests stored grains and books, and it is notably used in the classical Chinese compound "蝂蝝" to denote the larvae of such pests. This character is composed of the radical for "insect" or "worm" (虫) on the left, indicating its biological category, and a phonetic component (般) on the right that provides a clue to its pronunciation, which in Mandarin is "bǎn." While rare in modern everyday usage, "蝂" appears in ancient texts and dictionaries to describe agricultural pests, reflecting its role in premodern contexts related to crop storage and preservation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8742
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	蝂
HTML Hex Encoding	蝂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9D 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8742
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008742
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8742

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	E3ED
kCCCII	232A67
kCNS1986	2-4D74
kCNS1992	2-4D74
kCangjie	LILLE
kCantonese	baan2
kCihaiT	1193.306
kDaeJaweon	1554.310
kFanqie	布綰
kFourCornerCode	5214.7
kGB5	6560
kHanYu	42863.060
kHanyuPinyin	42863.060:bǎn
kIRGDaeJaweon	1554.310
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42863.060
kIRGKangXi	1088.120
kIRG_GSource	G5-615C
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E3ED
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-023544
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-71E3
kIRG_KSource	K2-5C43
kIRG_TSource	T2-4D74
kJapanese	ハン
kKangXi	1088.120
kMandarin	bǎn
kMojiJoho	MJ023544
kMorohashi	33215
kRSUnicode	142.8
kSBGY	286.39
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXHC1983	0030.030:bǎn