U+879F "螟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+879F "螟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese ideograph that primarily refers to a type of insect, specifically the rice stem borer or similar crop-damaging moths in the family Pyralidae. In classical and modern usage, it often appears in compound terms like "螟蛉" (mingling), which originally described a kind of parasitic wasp larva but later became a metaphor for an adopted child. The character is composed of the radical for "insect" (虫) and the phonetic component "冥" (ming), indicating both its biological category and approximate pronunciation. Beyond entomology, it can also carry a connotation of something that damages or consumes from within, such as in the phrase "螟害" (insect blight), reflecting its agrarian symbolism of pestilence and hidden harm.

General Properties

Code Point	U+879F
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	螟
HTML Hex Encoding	螟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9E 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x879F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000879F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u879f

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

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kCNS1992	1-722B
kCangjie	LIBAC
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kCihaiT	1195.305
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kDaeJaweon	1558.290
kDefinition	snout moth's larva
kEACC	215727
kFanqie	莫經
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kGB0	3588
kGB1	3588
kGSR	0841d
kHangul	명:0N
kHanYu	42881.130
kHanyuPinyin	42881.130:míng
kHKGlyph	3637
kIICore	AGTHKP
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kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42881.130
kIRGKangXi	1093.410
kIRG_GSource	G0-4378
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BFC1
kIRG_JSource	J0-6A26
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DAFA
kIRG_KSource	K0-592D
kIRG_TSource	T1-722B
kJapanese	メイ ミョウ ずいむし
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:6103
kJapaneseKun	ZUIMUSHI
kJapaneseOn	MEI MYOU BEI
kJis0	7406
kKangXi	1093.410
kKorean	MYENG
kLau	2146
kMainlandTelegraph	5820
kMandarin	míng
kMatthews	4533
kMeyerWempe	1818
kMojiJoho	MJ023651
kMorohashi	33429
kNelson	4175
kPhonetic	902
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6539+142.6.10
kRSUnicode	142.10
kSBGY	197.32
kSMSZD2003Index	618.13
kSMSZD2003Readings	míng粵ming4
kTaiwanTelegraph	5820
kTGHZ2013	255.050:míng
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	260:152
kXHC1983	0793.050:míng