U+87C1 "蟁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+87C1 "蟁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that represents a type of mosquito or gnat, often associated with biting insects in classical texts. This character is composed of the radical for insect or worm and a phonetic component, reflecting its semantic classification within traditional Chinese lexicography. It is not commonly used in modern Chinese, but it appears in historical or literary contexts, particularly in ancient poetry or descriptions of swarming insects. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, it serves as a digital representation of a character that preserves cultural and linguistic heritage from early East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+87C1
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	蟁
HTML Hex Encoding	蟁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9F 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x87C1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000087C1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u87c1

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

kCCCII	232B6B
kCNS1986	E-5639
kCNS1992	3-5639
kCangjie	RPLII
kCantonese	man1
kCihaiT	1197.403
kDaeJaweon	1560.180
kDefinition	a mosquito, a gnat
kEACC	335652
kFanqie	無分
kHanYu	42888.060
kIRGDaeJaweon	1560.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42888.060
kIRGKangXi	1095.330
kIRG_GSource	GE-4B57
kIRG_HSource	H-A0D7
kIRG_JSource	J14-776F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-726E
kIRG_KSource	K2-5D2C
kIRG_TSource	T3-5639
kJapanese	ブン
kJIS0213	2,87,79
kJapaneseKun	KA
kJapaneseOn	BUN
kJis1	5950
kKangXi	1095.330
kMandarin	wén
kMatthews	7134
kMojiJoho	MJ023686
kMorohashi	33533
kPhonetic	878
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18621+142.6.11
kRSUnicode	142.11
kSBGY	109.37
kSemanticVariant	U+868A<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	621.04
kTaiwanTelegraph	9155
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	322:247
kXHC1983	1206.070:wén