U+87A5 "螥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+87A5 "螥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that belongs to the insect radical and is traditionally defined as a type of fly or gnat in classical dictionaries. This logograph consists of components suggesting an insect or bug alongside a phonetic element, though its specific usage in modern Chinese or Japanese is extremely limited, with no common vocabulary or standard meanings recorded in contemporary writing systems. Its encoding in the Unicode standard ensures that it can be represented digitally for historical or scholarly purposes, preserving a niche piece of East Asian script heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+87A5
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	螥
HTML Hex Encoding	螥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9E 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x87A5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000087A5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u87a5

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	232B59
kCNS1986	E-6645
kCNS1992	3-6645
kCangjie	LIOIR
kCantonese	cong1
kDefinition	the house-fly
kFenn	679D
kFennIndex	544.11
kHanYu	42880.031
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42880.031
kIRGKangXi	1094.271
kIRG_GSource	GE-4B52
kIRG_HSource	H-9ADB
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-023658
kIRG_TSource	T3-6645
kJapanese	ソウ
kKangXi	1094.271
kMandarin	cāng
kMatthews	6715
kMojiJoho	MJ023658
kMorohashi	33468
kPhonetic	254*
kRSUnicode	142.10
kTaiwanTelegraph	5823
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	313:325