U+87C4 "蟄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蟄
U+87C4 "蟄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to hibernate or to lie dormant, often used in the context of animals such as insects or reptiles entering a state of torpor during winter. It is composed of the radical 虫 (insect) over a phonetic component 執, reflecting its etymological link to stillness and concealment. In classical texts and modern usage, it can refer to the period of hibernation, such as in the solar term 驚蟄 (Jīngzhé), which marks the awakening of dormant creatures in spring.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+87C4 |
| 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 | 蟄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蟄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9F 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x87C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000087C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u87c4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EE68 |
| kCCCII | 232B6E |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5F36 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5F36 |
| kCangjie | GILMI |
| kCantonese | zat6 |
| kCihaiT | 1197.102 |
| kCowles | 155 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1560.220 |
| kDefinition | to hibernate |
| kEACC | 232B6E |
| kFanqie | 直立 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4513.6 |
| kGB1 | 5361 |
| kGSR | 0685g |
| kHangul | 칩:0N |
| kHanYu | 42883.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42883.010:zhé |
| kIICore | ATJKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1560.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42883.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1096.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-555D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EE68 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6A2F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EFB3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-765E |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5F36 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6635 |
| kJapanese | チツ チュウ シュウ ジュウ かくれる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAKURERU |
| kJapaneseOn | CHITSU CHUU |
| kJis0 | 7415 |
| kKangXi | 1096.020 |
| kKorean | CHIP |
| kMandarin | zhé |
| kMatthews | 998 |
| kMeyerWempe | 169 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023689 MJ023689:E0101 MJ023690:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 33537 33537:E0101 |
| kNelson | 4183 |
| kPhonetic | 69 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6548+142.6.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.11 |
| kSBGY | 532.33 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蛰" U+86F0 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 620.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhé粵zik6,zat6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5832 |
| kTang | djhip |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | trập |
| kXerox | 271:056 |
| kXHC1983 | 1464.051:zhé |