U+87AC "螬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
螬
U+87AC "螬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of insect, specifically the larvae of the scarab beetle, commonly known as a grub. In classical and modern Chinese texts, it appears in agricultural contexts, often describing pests that damage crops by feeding on roots, such as in the compound "蛴螬" (qícáo), which denotes the white, wormlike larvae of beetles. This character is composed of a "worm" radical (虫) on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its association with invertebrates and its pronunciation in Mandarin as "cáo".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+87AC |
| 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 | 螬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 螬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9E 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x87AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000087AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u87ac |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EE5D |
| kCCCII | 232B72 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5F2B |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5F2B |
| kCangjie | LITWA |
| kCantonese | cou4 |
| kCihaiT | 1197.108 |
| kCowles | 4788 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1559.240 |
| kDefinition | grubs in fruit |
| kEACC | 232B72 |
| kFanqie | 昨勞 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5426.7 |
| kGB0 | 8309 |
| kGB1 | 8309 |
| kGSR | 1053d |
| kHanYu | 42884.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42884.020:cáo |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1559.240 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42884.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1094.490 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7329 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EE5D |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7B5D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7279 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5D21 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5F2B |
| kJapanese | ソウ ゾウ シュウ ジュ |
| kTGH | 2013:6231 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,91,61 |
| kJapaneseOn | SOU ZOU SHUU JU |
| kJis1 | 5943 |
| kKangXi | 1094.490 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5834 |
| kMandarin | cáo |
| kMatthews | 6738 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3423 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023663 |
| kMorohashi | 33493 |
| kPhonetic | 231 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+15100+142.6.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.11 |
| kSBGY | 158.30 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 619.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cáo粵cou4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5834 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 032.150:cáo |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 306:265 |
| kXHC1983 | 0107.030:cáo |