U+8786 "螆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8786 "螆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in traditional and classical texts, where it represents a type of insect, often specifically referring to a kind of fly or gnat. This character falls under the radical for insects or worms (虫) and is composed of additional strokes that contribute to its phonetic and semantic meaning. In historical and regional usage, it may appear in literature or dictionaries describing small, pestilent insects, though it is not common in modern standard Mandarin. Its encoded inclusion in Unicode ensures that this rarely used but culturally significant character remains accessible for digital preservation and academic study.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8786
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	螆
HTML Hex Encoding	螆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9E 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8786
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008786
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8786

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	232B4B
kCangjie	LITVI
kCantonese	zi1
kCheungBauer	142/10;LITVI;zi1
kCheungBauerIndex	458.09
kCowles	4662
kDaeJaweon	1557.170
kDefinition	hairy and poisonous caterpillars; (Cant.) a louse
kFanqie	七吏
kFenn	880K
kFennIndex	589.04
kGB5	6585
kHanYu	42876.160
kHanyuPinyin	42876.160:cì
kIICore	CH
kIRGDaeJaweon	1557.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42876.160
kIRGKangXi	1094.270
kIRG_GSource	G5-6175
kIRG_HSource	H-9E5F
kIRG_JSource	J1-5B3B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-723E
kIRG_TSource	T4-533C
kJapanese	シ
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis1	5927
kKangXi	1094.270
kMandarin	cì
kMatthews	6967
kMeyerWempe	3527
kMojiJoho	MJ023625
kMorohashi	33368
kPhonetic	132*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22439+142.6.10
kRSUnicode	142.10
kSBGY	356.40
kSemanticVariant	U+869D<kMatthews U+86D3<kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index	617.13 619.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	zī粵zi1
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	H