U+8772 "蝲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蝲

U+8772 "蝲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in traditional and classical texts. It refers to a type of insect, specifically a cricket or a similar orthopteran, and is often associated with the term "蝲蛄," which denotes a freshwater crayfish or a related crustacean in some regional contexts. This character is composed of the radical for insect, 虫, and a phonetic component, providing both semantic and phonetic cues typical in Chinese logographic writing. While not common in modern everyday usage, it appears in specialized zoological descriptions, literature, and historical references, preserving a link to natural history terminology in the Sinosphere.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8772
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	蝲
HTML Hex Encoding	蝲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9D 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8772
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008772
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8772

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

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kFanqie	盧達
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kGB3	6646
kHanYu	42868.090
kHanyuPinyin	42868.090:là
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kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42868.090
kIRGKangXi	1091.120
kIRG_GSource	G3-624E
kIRG_JSource	J14-7762
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-71F7
kIRG_KSource	K2-5C5F
kIRG_TSource	T4-4D28
kJapanese	ラツラチさそり
kTGH	2013:7774
kJIS0213	2,87,66
kJapaneseKun	SASORI
kJapaneseOn	RATSU RACHI
kJis1	5922
kKangXi	1091.120
kMandarin	là
kMojiJoho	MJ023601
kMorohashi	33320
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18608+142.6.9
kRSUnicode	142.9
kSBGY	483.64
kTGHZ2013	207.010:là
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0669.050:là