U+8799 "螙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
螙
U+8799 "螙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an obscure Chinese character that primarily means "grubs" or "insect larvae," specifically those that bore into wood or damage plants, and it is also used metaphorically to refer to corrupting or decaying influences. This character is composed of the radical for "insect" combined with a phonetic component, and it appears in historical and classical Chinese texts rather than in modern everyday usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8799 |
| 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 | 螙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 螙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9E 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8799 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008799 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8799 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 232B45 |
| kCNS1986 | E-5262 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-5262 |
| kCangjie | DLII |
| kCantonese | dou3 |
| kCihaiT | 1196.108 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1558.200 |
| kDefinition | grubs in wood, worms in books, clothes, etc. used figuratively of corrupt officials |
| kEACC | 232B45 |
| kFanqie | 當故 |
| kFennIndex | 569.06 |
| kGB5 | 3762 |
| kHanYu | 42877.020 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1558.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42877.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1093.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-455E |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5B46 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-722D |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5C75 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-5262 |
| kJapanese | ト きくいむし |
| kJis1 | 5938 |
| kKangXi | 1093.280 |
| kMandarin | dù |
| kMatthews | 6507 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023644 |
| kMorohashi | 33416 |
| kPhonetic | 932 1376 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+15099+142.6.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.10 |
| kSBGY | 368.18 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8827<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 619.03 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kXHC1983 | 0269.062:dù |