U+87A6 "螦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+87A6 "螦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character that has historically been used as a variant form of the character meaning "a kind of insect" or "larva," often associated with locusts or similar pests in classical texts. Its structure combines the radical for insect or worm, 虫, with a phonetic component, and it appears primarily in older Chinese dictionaries and literature rather than in modern everyday usage. Due to its infrequent occurrence, the character may require specialized fonts or software to display correctly and is not commonly found in standard Chinese digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+87A6
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	螦
HTML Hex Encoding	螦
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9E 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x87A6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000087A6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u87a6

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

kCangjie	LIQMF
kCantonese	sou3
kDaeJaweon	1559.150
kHanYu	42875.071
kIRGDaeJaweon	1559.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42875.071
kIRGKangXi	1094.271
kIRG_GSource	GK-6848
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-723A
kIRG_KSource	K2-5C7C
kKangXi	1094.271
kKorean	SO
kMandarin	sāo
kPseudoGB1	9346
kRSUnicode	142.10
kTotalStrokes	16