U+8778 "蝸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蝸
U+8778 "蝸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a snail, specifically the land snail or any mollusk of the gastropod family with a spiral shell. In traditional Chinese and Japanese usage, it appears in words like "蝸牛" (wōniú in Mandarin, or katatsumuri in Japanese), meaning snail, and can also metaphorically refer to something slow or spiral-shaped. This character is composed of the radical "虫" (insect or creature) on the left, and the phonetic component "咼" (guō) on the right, and it is used across various East Asian contexts, from zoology to poetic imagery.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8778 |
| 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 | 蝸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蝸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9D 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8778 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008778 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8778 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BDBD |
| kCCCII | 21567B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6E66 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6E66 |
| kCangjie | LIBBR |
| kCantonese | wo1 |
| kCihaiT | 1194.302 |
| kCowles | 5057 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1557.020 |
| kDefinition | snail |
| kEACC | 21567B |
| kFanqie | 古娃 古禾 古華 |
| kFenn | 581H |
| kFennIndex | 263.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5712.7 |
| kGB1 | 4647 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0018c |
| kHangul | 와:0N |
| kHanYu | 42862.140 |
| kHanyuPinlu | wō(11) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42862.140:wō,luó,guǒ |
| kHKGlyph | 3633 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1557.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42862.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1091.290 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4E4F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDBD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6977 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FDF4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6844 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6E66 |
| kJapanese | カ カイ ケ ラ かたつむり |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KATATSUMURI |
| kJapaneseOn | KA RA |
| kJis0 | 7387 |
| kKangXi | 1091.290 |
| kKarlgren | 437 |
| kKorean | WA |
| kMandarin | wō |
| kMatthews | 3509 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3774 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023610 |
| kMorohashi | 33338 |
| kNelson | 4170 |
| kPhonetic | 700 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6526+142.6.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.9 |
| kSBGY | 093.19 166.08 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蜗" U+8717 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 617.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | wō粵wo1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5815 |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 262:167 |
| kXHC1983 | 1209.021:wō |