U+877C "蝼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蝼

U+877C "蝼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of mole cricket, an insect known for burrowing in soil and often considered a pest in agriculture. It is composed of the radical for "insect" (虫) on the left, indicating its association with bugs or small creatures, and a phonetic component (娄) on the right. In modern usage, "蝼" appears in terms like "蝼蚁" (lóu yǐ), meaning "mole crickets and ants," which is a metaphor for insignificant or trivial beings. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in Unicode, ensuring its consistent representation across digital systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+877C
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	蝼
HTML Hex Encoding	蝼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9D 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x877C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000877C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u877c

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

kCCCII	27572C
kCangjie	LIFDV
kCantonese	lau4
kDaeJaweon	1557.100
kDefinition	a mole cricket, Gryllotalpa africana
kEACC	27572C
kFourCornerCode	5914
kGB0	8287
kHanYu	42873.060
kIICore	CG
kIRGDaeJaweon	1557.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42873.060
kIRGKangXi	1092.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-7277
kIRG_JSource	J4-7763
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-71F8
kIRG_TSource	T4-4D31
kJapanese	ロウル
kTGH	2013:5928
kJIS0213	2,87,67
kKangXi	1092.211
kMainlandTelegraph	5829
kMandarin	lóu
kMojiJoho	MJ023615
kMorohashi	33361
kPhonetic	780*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18609+142.6.9
kRSUnicode	142.9
kSimplifiedVariant	"蝼" U+877C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	618.05
kTGHZ2013	231.120:lóu
kTotalStrokes	15
kTraditionalVariant	"蝼" U+877C CJK Unified Ideograph-# "螻" U+87BB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0734.030:lóu