U+874E "蝎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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