U+8756 "蝖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蝖
U+8756 "蝖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily appears in classical literary and historical contexts, though it has limited modern usage. In traditional Chinese, it is a variant form of the character 蠉, which refers to a type of insect or crawling creature, and is sometimes associated with the wriggling motion of larvae or small aquatic arthropods. Its structure combines the radical 虫 (insect) with a phonetic component, reflecting its etymological roots in describing tiny, often unwelcome, moving organisms. Overall, U+8756 stands as a specialized character within the vast CJK repertoire, preserving an archaic taxonomic nuance rather than serving everyday communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8756 |
| 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 | 蝖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蝖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9D 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8756 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008756 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8756 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E7A1 |
| kCCCII | 232A6F |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5368 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5368 |
| kCangjie | LIJMM |
| kCantonese | hyun1 |
| kCihaiT | 1194.404 |
| kFanqie | 況袁 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5311.6 |
| kGB3 | 6659 |
| kHanYu | 42873.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42873.080:xuān |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42873.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1089.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-625B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E7A1 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-023568 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7218 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5368 |
| kJapanese | ケン カン セン ゼン |
| kKangXi | 1089.120 |
| kMandarin | xuān |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023568 |
| kMorohashi | 33266 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.9 |
| kSBGY | 115.12 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |