U+879C "螜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
螜
U+879C "螜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that historically refers to a type of insect or creature, often associated with the concept of a "wood louse" or similar small arthropod, as indicated in classical Chinese dictionaries like the Kangxi Zidian. It belongs to the set of CJK ideographs encoded for East Asian languages, though its modern usage is extremely limited, appearing primarily in ancient texts or specialized etymological contexts. The character is composed of the radical for "insect" (虫) combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its meaning as a bug or crawling animal.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+879C |
| 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 | 螜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 螜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9E 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x879C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000879C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u879c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EB6D |
| kCCCII | 232B43 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5A3B |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5A3B |
| kCangjie | GELMI |
| kCantonese | huk6 |
| kCihaiT | 1195.303 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1558.250 |
| kFanqie | 胡谷 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4713.6 |
| kGB3 | 6663 |
| kHanYu | 42876.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42876.070:hú |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1558.250 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42876.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1093.350 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-625F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EB6D |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-023648 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7228 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5C78 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5A3B |
| kJapanese | コク ゴク |
| kKangXi | 1093.350 |
| kMandarin | hú |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023648 |
| kMorohashi | 33423 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.10 |
| kSBGY | 449.50 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |