U+8748 "蝈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8748 "蝈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of insect, specifically a cicada or a grasshopper, and is often used in classical and modern Chinese texts to denote these noisy, winged creatures. It falls within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese scripts, and its structure combines the radical for "insect" (虫) with a phonetic component to convey both meaning and sound. In common usage, it appears in literature and descriptive language related to nature, particularly in references to the sound of cicadas in summer.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8748
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	蝈
HTML Hex Encoding	蝈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9D 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8748
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008748
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8748

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	2D572D
kCangjie	LIWMI
kCantonese	gwok3
kDefinition	small green frog; cicada
kEACC	2D572D
kFourCornerCode	5610
kGB0	8269
kHanYu	42862.030
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42862.030
kIRGKangXi	1088.341
kIRG_GSource	G0-7265
kTGH	2013:5707
kKangXi	1088.341
kMainlandTelegraph	5841
kMandarin	guō
kRSUnicode	142.8
kSMSZD2003Index	616.01
kTGHZ2013	126.070:guō
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"蟈" U+87C8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0422.080:guō