U+877F "蝿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蝿
U+877F "蝿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a simplified form of the traditional character "蠅", meaning "fly" as in the insect. In Japanese, it is similarly used as the shinjitai (simplified) form of the kanji for "fly" (蠅), and it appears in compound words like "蝿取紙" (flypaper). Its radical is 虫 (insect), and in the Kangxi Dictionary, the traditional form 蠅 contains 19 strokes, while this simplified version 蝿 typically uses 15 strokes. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, representing a shared writing system across multiple East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+877F |
| 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 | 蝿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蝿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9D 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x877F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000877F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u877f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | LIWLU |
| kCantonese | jing4 |
| kDefinition | flies |
| kEACC | 4B5736 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5711.7 |
| kHanYu | 42869.151 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42869.151 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1092.211 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4B4B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4768 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5C65 |
| kJapanese | ヨウ はえ |
| kJapaneseKun | HAE |
| kJapaneseOn | YOU |
| kJis0 | 3972 |
| kKangXi | 1092.211 |
| kMandarin | yíng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023617 |
| kMorohashi | H545 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3358+142.6.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.9 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |