U+8761 "蝡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8761 "蝡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily denotes the wriggling or squirming movement of insects or worms, often used in classical texts to describe the slow, sinuous motion of creatures like caterpillars or maggots. Its structure combines the radical for insect or worm with a phonetic component, and it is a rare or specialized character in modern Chinese, more commonly found in historical or literary contexts rather than everyday usage. This ideograph reflects the detailed nature of Chinese character composition, where visual elements convey both meaning and sound.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8761
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	蝡
HTML Hex Encoding	蝡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9D 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8761
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008761
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8761

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	E7AB
kCCCII	232B21
kCNS1986	2-5372
kCNS1992	2-5372
kCangjie	LIMBK
kCantonese	jyu4
kCihaiT	1193.602
kDaeJaweon	1556.050
kDefinition	genus Eumenes, potter's wasps
kEACC	232B21
kFanqie	而允 而兖
kFourCornerCode	5113.4
kGSR	0238c
kHanYu	42869.050
kHanyuPinyin	42869.050:ruǎn
kIRGDaeJaweon	1556.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42869.050
kIRGKangXi	1090.070
kIRG_GSource	GE-4B43
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E7AB
kIRG_JSource	J1-5B31
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-721A
kIRG_KSource	K2-5C56
kIRG_TSource	T2-5372
kJapanese	ゼン ネン ジュン ニン
kJapaneseKun	UGOMEKU
kJapaneseOn	ZEN JU NEN NYU DA
kJis1	5917
kKangXi	1090.070
kMandarin	rú
kMojiJoho	MJ023582
kMorohashi	33290
kPhonetic	1631
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22434+142.6.9
kRSUnicode	142.9
kSBGY	278.04 293.49
kSemanticVariant	U+8815<kSMSZD2003Index:TZ
kSMSZD2003Index	617.14
kTaiwanTelegraph	5811
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	323:161
kXHC1983	0971.061:rú