U+8791 "螑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
螑
U+8791 "螑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that historically referred to a type of legendary or mythical large dog, often associated with ominous or monstrous imagery in ancient texts. It appears in classical Chinese literature, such as in the *Shanhaijing* (Classic of Mountains and Seas), where it is described as a beast resembling a dog with a black complexion, said to foretell calamity or bring misfortune. The character combines the radical for insect or reptile (虫) with the phonetic component 臭 (meaning smell, odor, or ugly), though its usage is largely archaic and not common in modern Chinese writing, making it a specialized glyph found primarily in historical or philological contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8791 |
| 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 | 螑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 螑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9E 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8791 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008791 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8791 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EB69 |
| kCCCII | 253A62 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5A37 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5A37 |
| kCangjie | LIHUK |
| kCantonese | jau3 |
| kCihaiT | 1195.502 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1558.060 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5613.4 |
| kHanYu | 42878.210 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42878.210:xiù |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1558.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42878.210 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1093.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4B4F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EB69 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-023636 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-724A |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5C6E |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5A37 |
| kJapanese | キュウ ク |
| kKangXi | 1093.030 |
| kMandarin | xiù |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023636 |
| kMorohashi | 33390 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.10 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |