U+87A9 "螩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+87A9 "螩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese ideograph that falls under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, specifically representing a character that is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese texts. Its structure combines the radical for "insect" or "worm" (虫) with a phonetic component or additional graphical elements, though its exact meaning and usage are obscure and not well documented in major dictionaries, likely indicating it is an archaic or variant form of another character. This character appears in historical or specialized linguistic contexts, such as ancient manuscripts or regional scripts, but does not have a widely recognized pronunciation or definition in contemporary language databases.

General Properties

Code Point U+87A9
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 螩
HTML Hex Encoding 螩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9E 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x87A9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000087A9
C/C++/Java Escape \u87a9

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 232B58
kCNS1986 E-6644
kCNS1992 3-6644
kCangjie LIOLD
kCantonese tiu4
kEACC 232B58
kHanYu 42878.191
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42878.191
kIRGKangXi 1094.271
kIRG_GSource GE-4B54
kIRG_HSource H-A0C6
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023660
kIRG_TSource T3-6644
kJapanese さなだむし
kKangXi 1094.271
kMandarin tiao
kMojiJoho MJ023660
kRSUnicode 142.10
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 H