U+877F "蝿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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

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