U+87AB "螫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
螫
U+87AB "螫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character composed of a radical related to insects or venomous creatures and a phonetic component, and it primarily means to sting, bite, or inject venom, as done by scorpions, wasps, or other arthropods. In classical and modern Chinese usage, it can function both as a verb describing the action of stinging and as a noun referring to the stinger or venomous tail of such creatures. This character is also used in Japanese kanji with similar meanings, and it appears in literary and scientific contexts to describe envenomation or irritant effects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+87AB |
| 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 | 螫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 螫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9E 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x87AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000087AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u87ab |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C1B1 |
| kCCCII | 21572A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-753C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-753C |
| kCangjie | GKLMI |
| kCantonese | sik1 |
| kCihaiT | 1197.107 |
| kCowles | 544 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1559.210 |
| kDefinition | poison; sting; poisonous insect |
| kEACC | 21572A |
| kFanqie | 施隻 |
| kFenn | 423F |
| kFennIndex | 22.02 457.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4813.6 |
| kGB0 | 8307 |
| kGB1 | 8307 |
| kGSR | 0793e |
| kHanYu | 42882.150 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42882.150:shì |
| kHKGlyph | 3643 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1559.210 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42882.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1094.480 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7327 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C1B1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6A2E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7271 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5C7E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-753C |
| kJapanese | セキ シャク カク シャ さす |
| kTGH | 2013:6199 |
| kJapaneseKun | SASU |
| kJapaneseOn | SEKI KAKU |
| kJis0 | 7414 |
| kKangXi | 1094.480 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5826 |
| kMandarin | shì |
| kMatthews | 5826 |
| kMeyerWempe | 274 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023662 |
| kMorohashi | 33491 |
| kNelson | 4180 |
| kPhonetic | 1151 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6547+142.6.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.11 |
| kSBGY | 517.46 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 619.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shì粵sik1 zhē粵sik1 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+8457<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5826 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 338.180:shì |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 264:306 |
| kXHC1983 | 1050.050:shì |