U+87BA "螺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+87BA "螺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a spiral shell, such as that of a snail or conch, and by extension denotes anything coiled or helical in shape. It is commonly used in words like “螺旋” (luóxuán), meaning spiral or helix, and “海螺” (hǎiluó), meaning conch or seashell, and appears in contexts ranging from marine biology to geometry and mechanical engineering. In historical and cultural usage, this character also appears in classical texts and names, and it serves as a radical component in other complex characters related to shells or twisting forms. Its structure combines the radical for insect or creature “虫” with a phonetic component, reflecting its origins in describing living organisms with coiled shells.

General Properties

Code Point U+87BA
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 螺
HTML Hex Encoding 螺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9E 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x87BA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000087BA
C/C++/Java Escape \u87ba

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

kBigFive C1B3
kCCCII 21572F
kCNS1986 1-753E
kCNS1992 1-753E
kCangjie LIWVF
kCantonese lo4
kCihaiT 1196.202
kCowles 2443
kDefinition spiral shell; conch; spiral
kEACC 21572F
kFanqie 落戈
kFenn 815F
kFennIndex 316.06
kFourCornerCode 5619.3
kGB0 3461
kGB1 3461
kHangul 나:0 라:0N
kHanYu 42885.050
kHanyuPinyin 42885.050:luó
kHKGlyph 3648
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42885.050
kIRGKangXi 1095.120
kIRG_GSource G0-425D
kIRG_HSource HB1-C1B3
kIRG_JSource J0-4D66
kIRG_KPSource KP0-D7AE
kIRG_KSource K0-5522
kIRG_TSource T1-753E
kIRG_VSource V2-8F66
kJapanese ラ にし
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:3410
kJapaneseKun NINA
kJapaneseOn RA
kJis0 4570
kKangXi 1095.120
kKarlgren 522
kKorean LA LEY
kLau 1956 1957
kMainlandTelegraph 5828
kMandarin luó
kMatthews 4111
kMeyerWempe 1645
kMojiJoho MJ023677
kMorohashi 33512
kNelson 4184
kPhonetic 842
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3920+142.6.11
kRSUnicode 142.11
kSBGY 163.22
kSemanticVariant U+8803<kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index 619.12
kSMSZD2003Readings luó粵lo4,lo2
kTaiwanTelegraph 5828
kTGHZ2013 238.130:luó
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kXerox 254:070
kXHC1983 0748.040:luó