U+874E "蝎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蝎
U+874E "蝎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily refers to a scorpion, specifically the venomous arachnid of the order Scorpiones. In modern Mandarin Chinese, it is most commonly used in the word "蝎子" (xiē zi), meaning scorpion, and appears in various compound terms related to scorpion anatomy, venom, or cultural symbolism. The character has been part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs since the Unicode standard was established, and it carries historical usage in classical texts where it sometimes metaphorically represents something harmful or treacherous.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+874E |
| 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 | 蝎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蝎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9D 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x874E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000874E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u874e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E7B2 |
| kCCCII | 232B27 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5379 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5379 |
| kCangjie | LIAPV |
| kCantonese | hot3 |
| kCihaiT | 1193.404 |
| kCowles | 1088 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1555.140 |
| kDefinition | scorpion |
| kEACC | 232B27 |
| kFanqie | 胡葛 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5612.7 |
| kGB0 | 4811 |
| kGB1 | 4811 |
| kGSR | 0313f |
| kHangul | 갈:0N |
| kHanYu | 42870.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42870.030:hé,xiē |
| kIICore | AGTKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1555.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42870.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1088.400 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-502B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E7B2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6979 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDE8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A69 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5379 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-662C |
| kJapanese | カツ ケツ さそり きくいむし |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3248 |
| kJapaneseKun | SUKUMOMUSHI SASORI |
| kJapaneseOn | KATSU |
| kJis0 | 7389 |
| kKangXi | 1088.400 |
| kKarlgren | 73 |
| kKorean | KAL |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5791 |
| kMandarin | xiē |
| kMatthews | 2124 |
| kMeyerWempe | 735 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023556 MJ023556:E0101 MJ023557:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 33254 33254:E0101 |
| kNelson | 4164 |
| kPhonetic | 510 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6528+142.6.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.9 |
| kSBGY | 482.61 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+880D<kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 616.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | hé粵hot3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5791 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 404.180:xiē |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | rết |
| kXerox | 276:244 |
| kXHC1983 | 1273.050:xiē |