U+8798 "螘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

螘

U+8798 "螘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents an ancient term for ants, specifically referring to the small, social insects, and it is also used in classical texts to denote a type of grub or larva. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block and shares its semantic core with the more common modern character "蟻" (yǐ) in Chinese. In historical usage, "螘" appears in literary works such as the "Shiji" (Records of the Grand Historian) to describe swarming behavior, and it has a secondary meaning related to a small hill or mound, drawing a metaphorical link between ant colonies and earth formations. While less common in contemporary script, it remains a recognized variant in traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji systems, often encountered in specialized calligraphy or classical studies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8798
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	螘
HTML Hex Encoding	螘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9E 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8798
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008798
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8798

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	EB63
kCCCII	232B4C
kCNS1986	2-5A31
kCNS1992	2-5A31
kCangjie	LIUMT
kCantonese	ngai5
kCihaiT	1196.104
kDaeJaweon	1558.190
kDefinition	ant
kEACC	232B4C
kFanqie	魚倚魚豈
kFourCornerCode	5211.8
kGB5	6517
kGSR	0548i
kHangul	의:1N
kHanYu	42878.110
kHanyuPinyin	42878.110:yǐ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1558.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42878.110
kIRGKangXi	1093.270
kIRG_GSource	G5-6131
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EB63
kIRG_JSource	J1-5B45
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7255
kIRG_KSource	K1-6A4C
kIRG_TSource	T2-5A31
kJapanese	ギ
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	ARI
kJapaneseOn	GI
kJis1	5937
kKangXi	1093.270
kKorean	UY
kLau	2328
kMandarin	yǐ
kMojiJoho	MJ023643
kMorohashi	33415
kPhonetic	454
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19765+142.6.10
kRSUnicode	142.10
kSBGY	243.16 255.43
kSemanticVariant	U+87FB<kLau
kSimplifiedVariant	"𰲹" U+30CB9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	619.02
kTaiwanTelegraph	5819
kTang	*ngyɛ̌
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	306:263
kXHC1983	1364.072:yǐ