U+87A1 "螡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+87A1 "螡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character classified under the radical for insect or worm. It is composed of components related to insects and was historically used in Classical Chinese texts, though it is not commonly employed in modern standard Chinese or Japanese. The exact meaning of this character is obscure and may represent a specific type of insect or a phonetic loan in ancient writings. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that this obscure glyph can be digitally represented and preserved for scholarly research, historical documentation, and specialized linguistic study.

General Properties

Code Point	U+87A1
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	螡
HTML Hex Encoding	螡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9E 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x87A1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000087A1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u87a1

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	395652
kCNS1986	E-525E
kCNS1992	3-525E
kCangjie	YKLII
kCantonese	man1
kCihaiT	1196.107
kEACC	395652
kFanqie	無分
kHanYu	42880.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42880.190
kIRGKangXi	1093.440
kIRG_GSource	GE-4B50
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-023653
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7234
kIRG_TSource	T3-525E
kJapanese	ブン
kKangXi	1093.440
kMandarin	wén
kMojiJoho	MJ023653
kMorohashi	33432
kPhonetic	877
kRSUnicode	142.10
kTotalStrokes	16