U+87DA "蟚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+87DA "蟚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or uncommon Chinese character that historically appears in classical texts and lexicons, though its exact usage is obscure. It is composed of the radical 虫 (insect or creature) and a phonetic component, suggesting it may have originally referred to a specific type of insect or a symbolic term in ancient literature. However, in modern standard Chinese, it is largely obsolete and has no common or widely known meaning, often appearing only in specialized linguistic or historical character databases. This character reflects the depth and complexity of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) script system, where many archaic glyphs survive primarily in digitized form for research and authentication purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+87DA
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	蟚
HTML Hex Encoding	蟚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9F 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x87DA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000087DA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u87da

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	232C35
kCNS1986	E-5878
kCNS1992	3-5878
kCangjie	GHLMI
kCantonese	paang4
kDaeJaweon	1561.230
kDefinition	a small land crab
kFanqie	薄庚
kGB5	6621
kHangul	팽:1N
kHanYu	42889.130
kHanyuPinyin	42889.130:péng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1561.230
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42889.130
kIRGKangXi	1096.380
kIRG_GSource	G5-6235
kIRG_HSource	H-8FB5
kIRG_JSource	J1-5B5A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-72B6
kIRG_KSource	K1-7221
kIRG_TSource	T3-5878
kJapanese	ハウ ビョウ
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseOn	HOU BYOU
kJis1	5958
kKangXi	1096.380
kKorean	PHAYNG
kLau	2452
kMandarin	péng
kMeyerWempe	2242
kMojiJoho	MJ023716
kMorohashi	33582
kPhonetic	1007
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19771+142.6.12
kRSUnicode	142.12
kSBGY	184.61
kSemanticVariant	U+87DB<kLau
kTaiwanTelegraph	5846
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	H