U+87B9 "螹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
螹
U+87B9 "螹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents a type of insect or small creature, traditionally identified as a "cicada" or a similar bug in classical texts, though its precise zoological referent can vary. The character is composed of the radical 虫 (chong, meaning "insect" or "creature") on the left and the phonetic component 斬 (zhan, meaning "to cut" or "behead") on the right, reflecting its logographic construction. It appears in older Chinese dictionaries and literary works but is rarely used in modern standard Mandarin, making it an obscure character primarily of interest to historical linguistics or paleography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+87B9 |
| 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 | 螹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 螹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9E 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x87B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000087B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u87b9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EE5E |
| kCCCII | 232B70 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5F2C |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5F2C |
| kCangjie | LIJJL |
| kCantonese | zim6 |
| kCihaiT | 1197.208 |
| kFanqie | 昨鹽 慈染 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5212.1 |
| kGB5 | 6553 |
| kHanYu | 42883.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42883.100:jiàn,chán |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42883.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1095.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-6155 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EE5E |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-023676 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7278 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5F2C |
| kJapanese | セン ゼン サン ザン |
| kKangXi | 1095.110 |
| kMandarin | jiàn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023676 |
| kMorohashi | 33510 |
| kPhonetic | 21* |
| kRSUnicode | 142.11 |
| kSBGY | 227.51 335.27 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𰳂" U+30CC2 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |