U+877E "蝾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+877E "蝾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of salamander or newt, often specifically the Chinese giant salamander, and appears in traditional and simplified Chinese scripts. In modern usage, it is commonly found in the word "蝾螈" (róng yuán), which denotes salamanders or newts in general. The character is composed of the radical "虫" (insect or reptile) on the left, indicating its association with small creatures, and the phonetic component "荣" on the right. Historically, it has been used in classical texts to describe aquatic amphibians and occasionally appears in literature and poetry as a symbol of the natural world.

General Properties

Code Point	U+877E
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	蝾
HTML Hex Encoding	蝾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9D 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x877E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000877E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u877e

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	292C64
kCangjie	LITBD
kCantonese	wing4
kDefinition	lizard
kEACC	292C64
kFourCornerCode	5419
kGB0	8278
kHanYu	42868.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42868.030
kIRGKangXi	1092.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-726E
kTGH	2013:5921
kKangXi	1092.211
kMandarin	róng
kRSUnicode	142.9
kSMSZD2003Index	618.03
kTGHZ2013	315.170:róng
kTotalStrokes	15
kTraditionalVariant	"蠑" U+8811 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0969.030:róng