U+8799 "螙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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
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