U+8790 "螐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8790 "螐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and seldom used Chinese character that represents a type of insect, specifically a kind of black ant or a similar small creature, as indicated in classical lexicons and ancient texts. Its composition combines the radical for "insect" on the left side, often associated with bugs or crawlers, with a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation, though it is not commonly encountered in modern standard Chinese or Japanese usage. This character primarily appears in historical or highly specialized literary references, making it an obscure element within the larger CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideograph set, and it functions mainly as a curiosity for linguists, paleographers, or enthusiasts of rare sinographs.

General Properties

Code Point U+8790
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 螐
HTML Hex Encoding 螐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9E 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8790
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008790
C/C++/Java Escape \u8790

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

kBigFive EB68
kCCCII 253A5E
kCNS1986 2-5A36
kCNS1992 2-5A36
kCangjie LIHRF
kCantonese wu1
kDaeJaweon 1558.050
kFanqie 哀都
kFourCornerCode 5712.7
kHanYu 42880.050
kHanyuPinyin 42880.050:wū
kIRGDaeJaweon 1558.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42880.050
kIRGKangXi 1093.020
kIRG_GSource GE-4B4E
kIRG_HSource HB2-EB68
kIRG_JSource J1-5B41
kIRG_KPSource KP1-724F
kIRG_KSource K2-5C6D
kIRG_TSource T2-5A36
kJapanese オ ウ
kJapaneseOn O U
kJis1 5933
kKangXi 1093.020
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ023635
kMorohashi 33389
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+22440+142.6.10
kRSUnicode 142.10
kSBGY 085.21
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 HMT