U+8768 "蝨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8768 "蝨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily denotes a louse, specifically a parasitic insect that infests humans and animals, and in classical texts it often appears in metaphors for smallness or pestilence. This character combines the radical for insect 虫 with a phonetic component, and it is used in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean contexts, though it appears more frequently in literary or specialized terminology rather than everyday speech. In historical Chinese literature, the character can also represent a general sense of vermin or nuisance, reflecting its connection to ideas of impurity and discomfort.

General Properties

Code Point U+8768
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 蝨
HTML Hex Encoding 蝨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9D 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8768
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008768
C/C++/Java Escape \u8768

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 BDBE
kCCCII 21567C
kCNS1986 1-6E67
kCNS1992 1-6E67
kCangjie NJLII
kCantonese sat1
kCihaiT 1194.101
kCowles 3852
kDaeJaweon 1556.130
kDefinition louse; bedbug
kEACC 21567C
kFanqie 所櫛
kFennIndex 450.04
kFourCornerCode 1713.6
kGradeLevel 2
kGSR 0506a
kHangul 슬:0N
kHanYu 42874.050
kHanyuPinyin 42874.050:shī
kHKGlyph 3632
kIICore ATHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1556.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42874.050
kIRGKangXi 1090.190
kIRG_GSource GE-4B45
kIRG_HSource HB1-BDBE
kIRG_JSource J0-697C
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E4E9
kIRG_KSource K0-6324
kIRG_TSource T1-6E67
kJapanese シツ シチ しらみ
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun SHIRAMI
kJapaneseOn SHITSU
kJis0 7392
kKangXi 1090.190
kKorean SUL
kLau 1533 2676
kMandarin shī
kMatthews 5452
kMeyerWempe 2644
kMojiJoho MJ023589
kMorohashi 33303
kNelson 4159
kPhonetic 1134
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6531+142.6.9
kRSUnicode 142.9
kSBGY 474.63
kSemanticVariant U+8671<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index 617.05
kSMSZD2003Readings shī粵sat1
kTaiwanTelegraph 5810
kTang shrit
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kXerox 261:337
kXHC1983 1035.061:shī