U+874C "蝌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蝌
U+874C "蝌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a tadpole, the aquatic larval stage of a frog or toad. In modern Standard Chinese, this character is most commonly used in the compound word "蝌蚪" (kē dǒu), which specifically means tadpole. The character itself combines a radical meaning "insect" or "creature" on the left side, indicating its association with small animals, with a phonetic component on the right that provides a clue to its pronunciation. Beyond its literal zoological meaning, "蝌" appears in some classical texts and poetic descriptions of nature, but it holds no major philosophical or historical significance outside of its role in describing amphibian development.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+874C |
| 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 | 蝌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蝌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9D 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x874C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000874C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u874c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BDC1 |
| kCCCII | 21567D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6E6A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6E6A |
| kCangjie | LIHDJ |
| kCantonese | fo1 |
| kCihaiT | 1193.401 |
| kCowles | 766 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1555.100 |
| kDefinition | tadpole |
| kEACC | 21567D |
| kFanqie | 苦禾 |
| kFenn | 510K |
| kFennIndex | 252.10 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5410.0 |
| kGB0 | 8282 |
| kGB1 | 8282 |
| kHangul | 과:1N |
| kHanYu | 42870.160 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kē(10) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42870.160:kē |
| kHKGlyph | 3635 |
| kIICore | AGTJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1555.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42870.160 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1088.350 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7272 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDC1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6978 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-71F4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5954 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6E6A |
| kJapanese | カ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3249 |
| kJapaneseOn | KA |
| kJis0 | 7388 |
| kKangXi | 1088.350 |
| kKarlgren | 417 |
| kKorean | KWA |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5809 |
| kMandarin | kē |
| kMatthews | 3390 |
| kMeyerWempe | 516a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023553 |
| kMorohashi | 33248 |
| kNelson | 4166 |
| kPhonetic | 369 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6527+142.6.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.9 |
| kSBGY | 164.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 616.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kē粵fo1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5809 |
| kTang | kuɑ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 195.140:kē |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 272:332 |
| kXHC1983 | 0639.010:kē |