U+8744 "蝄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8744 "蝄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and little used Chinese character (hanzi) that historically refers to a type of mythical creature, often described as a kind of mountain spirit or demon in ancient Chinese folklore and texts such as the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". Its composition combines the radical for "insect" or "serpent" with a phonetic component suggesting a name or sound, and while its precise meaning has become obscure over time, it is primarily encountered in classical literature and lexicons rather than in modern everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8744
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	蝄
HTML Hex Encoding	蝄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9D 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8744
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008744
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8744

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

kCCCII	232A55
kCangjie	LIBTV
kCantonese	mong5
kCihaiT	1193.310
kDaeJaweon	1555.020
kEACC	232A55
kGB5	6557
kHanYu	42862.130
kHanyuPinyin	42862.130:wǎng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1555.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42862.130
kIRGKangXi	1088.140
kIRG_GSource	G5-6159
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-058634
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-71C9
kIRG_KSource	K2-5C45
kIRG_TSource	TF-4C33
kJapanese	モウ
kKangXi	1088.140
kMandarin	wǎng
kMojiJoho	MJ058634 MJ023546:E0100 MJ058634:E0101
kMorohashi	H543 H543:E0101
kPhonetic	926
kRSUnicode	142.8
kTotalStrokes	14
kXHC1983	1188.060:wǎng