U+87BE "螾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
螾
U+87BE "螾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the earthworm, an invertebrate belonging to the annelid phylum, and in classical texts it also denotes a type of worm or insect associated with the earth. This character is composed of the radical 虫 (chóng, meaning "insect" or "worm") and the phonetic component 寅 (yín), indicating its pronunciation in Mandarin as "yǐn." Historically, 螾 appears in ancient literature, such as the "Erya" dictionary, where it is defined as a synonym for the earthworm, and it carries symbolic associations with fertility and the aeration of soil due to the creature's ecological role.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+87BE |
| 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 | 螾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 螾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9E 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x87BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000087BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u87be |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EE58 |
| kCCCII | 232B66 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5F26 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5F26 |
| kCangjie | LIJMC |
| kCantonese | jan5 |
| kCihaiT | 1196.602 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1560.140 |
| kDefinition | the earthworm |
| kEACC | 232B66 |
| kFanqie | 翼眞 余忍 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5318.6 |
| kGB3 | 6686 |
| kGSR | 0450j |
| kHanYu | 42887.200 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42887.200:yǐn,yín |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1560.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42887.200 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1095.290 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6276 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EE58 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-776D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-728B |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5D2A |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5F26 |
| kJapanese | イン |
| kJIS0213 | 2,87,77 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIMIZU |
| kJapaneseOn | IN |
| kJis1 | 5948 |
| kKangXi | 1095.290 |
| kMandarin | yǐn |
| kMatthews | 7430 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3828 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023682 |
| kMorohashi | 33529 |
| kPhonetic | 1488 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+18619+142.6.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.11 |
| kSBGY | 104.26 276.35 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8693<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 621.03 |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXHC1983 | 1381.040:yǐn |