U+8755 "蝕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蝕
U+8755 "蝕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "eclipse" or "to erode" and is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In Chinese, it appears in terms like "日蝕" for solar eclipse and "月蝕" for lunar eclipse, reflecting celestial phenomena where one body obscures another. The character is composed of the radical for "insect" or "worm" (虫) on the left, suggesting a historical association with gradual eating away, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation, which is "shi" in Mandarin. Beyond astronomy, it can also convey concepts of corrosion, loss, or damage over time, making it a versatile ideograph in both literal and metaphorical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8755 |
| 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 | 蝕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蝕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9D 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8755 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008755 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8755 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BB6B |
| kCCCII | 215676 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6A73 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6A73 |
| kCangjie | OILMI |
| kCantonese | sik6 |
| kCihaiT | 1193.407 |
| kCowles | 3926 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1555.200 |
| kDefinition | nibble away; erode; eclipse |
| kEACC | 215676 |
| kFanqie | 乗力 |
| kFenn | 363F |
| kFennIndex | 452.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8573.6 |
| kGB1 | 4220 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0921d |
| kHangul | 식:0N |
| kHanYu | 42864.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shí(67) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42864.080:shí,lì,lóng |
| kHKGlyph | 3625 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1555.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42864.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1089.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4A34 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BB6B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3F2A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5C5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-635A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6A73 |
| kJapanese | ショク ジキ リョク リキ ロウ ル むしばむ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | MUSHIBAMU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOKU |
| kJis0 | 3110 |
| kKangXi | 1089.100 |
| kKorean | SIK |
| kMandarin | shí |
| kMatthews | 5811 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2707 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023566 MJ023566:E0102 MJ023567:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 33264:E0103 |
| kNelson | 5165 |
| kPhonetic | 1196 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2544+142.6.8 C+2544+184.8.6 V+7709+142.6.9 V+7709+184.9.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.9 |
| kSBGY | 525.17 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蚀" U+8680 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 615.12 780.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shí粵sik6 shí粵sit6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5793 |
| kTang | *jhiək |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 254:140 |