U+8782 "螂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
螂
U+8782 "螂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the mantis, specifically the praying mantis, and is commonly used in compound words such as "螳螂" (tángláng) meaning "mantis" in Mandarin. This ideograph belongs to the radical for insects or worms (虫) and has a phonetic component that hints at its pronunciation, which is "láng" in Mandarin Chinese. In traditional and simplified Chinese scripts alike, it appears in cultural references like the idiom "螳臂当车" (táng bì dǎng chē), illustrating the mantis using its arms to block a chariot as a metaphor for overestimating one's abilities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8782 |
| 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 | 螂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 螂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9E 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8782 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008782 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8782 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kAlternateTotalStrokes | 16:J |
| kBigFive | BDB8 |
| kCCCII | 215723 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6E61 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6E61 |
| kCangjie | LIIIL |
| kCantonese | long4 |
| kCihaiT | 1196.105 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1557.120 |
| kDefinition | mantis, dung beetle |
| kEACC | 215723 |
| kFanqie | 魯當 |
| kFenn | 362I |
| kFennIndex | 288.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5712.7 |
| kGB0 | 8275 |
| kGB1 | 8275 |
| kHangul | 랑:0N |
| kHanYu | 42866.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42866.080:láng |
| kHKGlyph | 3626 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1557.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42866.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1092.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-726B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDB8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6A27 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D7D8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-554C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6E61 |
| kJapanese | ロウ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5713 |
| kJapaneseOn | ROU |
| kJis0 | 7407 |
| kKangXi | 1092.220 |
| kKorean | LANG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5788 |
| kMandarin | láng |
| kMatthews | 3816 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1661c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023618 MJ023618:E0102 MJ023621:E0103 MJ023620:E0104 MJ023619:E0105 |
| kMorohashi | 33362 33362:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4160 |
| kPhonetic | 832 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6540+142.6.10 V+7862+142.6.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.10 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+870B<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 618.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | láng粵long4 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+870B<kMeyerWempe |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5788 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 209.180:láng |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 261:330 |
| kXHC1983 | 0674.070:láng |