U+879E "螞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
螞
U+879E "螞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of insect, specifically referring to a leech or a horsefly in its traditional usage, though in modern Mandarin it is most commonly used in the term "螞蟻" meaning ant. This character is composed of the radical for insect or worm, 虫, on the left side, and the phonetic component 馬 (meaning horse) on the right, which influences its pronunciation as "mǎ" or "mà" depending on the context. It is used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems, with its structure and meaning rooted in ancient Chinese script, and it appears in various compound words related to small crawling creatures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+879E |
| 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 | 螞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 螞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9E 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x879E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000879E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u879e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BFC2 |
| kCCCII | 215725 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-722C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-722C |
| kCangjie | LISQF |
| kCantonese | maa5 |
| kCihaiT | 1195.304 |
| kCowles | 2565 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1558.280 |
| kDefinition | ant; leech |
| kEACC | 215725 |
| kFanqie | 莫下 |
| kFenn | 255F |
| kFennIndex | 327.04 327.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5112.7 |
| kGB1 | 3476 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kHangul | 마:1N |
| kHanYu | 42876.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | mǎ(40) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42876.040:mǎ,mā,mà |
| kHKGlyph | 3639 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1558.280 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42876.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1093.400 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-426C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BFC2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5B47 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7231 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5F76 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-722C |
| kJapanese | バ メ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseOn | BA ME |
| kJis1 | 5939 |
| kKangXi | 1093.400 |
| kKorean | MA |
| kLau | 2037 2038 2039 |
| kMandarin | mǎ |
| kMatthews | 4318 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1735 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023650 |
| kMorohashi | 33428 |
| kPhonetic | 863 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19766+142.6.10 C+19766+187.10.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.10 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蚂" U+8682 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 618.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | mǎ粵maa5 mā粵maa1 mà粵maa6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5818 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 251:063 |