U+87E2 "蟢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蟢
U+87E2 "蟢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in the written Chinese and Japanese languages, where it denotes a type of spider, often specifically referring to a house spider or certain varieties of web-spinning arachnids. This character is composed of the radical for insect or worm on the left side, indicating its association with crawling creatures, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation, which in Mandarin is xǐ. It appears in classical and modern texts, sometimes carrying symbolic connotations related to good luck or fortune in Chinese folklore, as the presence of such spiders was traditionally seen as an auspicious omen.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+87E2 |
| 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 | 蟢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蟢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9F 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x87E2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000087E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u87e2 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F0BD |
| kCCCII | 232C37 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6329 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6329 |
| kCangjie | LIGRR |
| kCantonese | hei2 |
| kCihaiT | 1198.402 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1561.330 |
| kDefinition | caulk; a spider |
| kEACC | 232C37 |
| kFanqie | 虚里 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5416.1 |
| kGB3 | 6691 |
| kGB8 | 9401 |
| kHanYu | 42889.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42889.110:xǐ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1561.330 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42889.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1097.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-627B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F0BD |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5B5D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-72B8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5D3F |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6329 |
| kJapanese | キ |
| kJapaneseOn | KI |
| kJis1 | 5961 |
| kKangXi | 1097.100 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 9240 |
| kMandarin | xǐ |
| kMatthews | 2441 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023724 |
| kMorohashi | 33595 |
| kPhonetic | 455 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+22449+142.6.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.12 |
| kSBGY | 251.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 621.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xǐ粵hei2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9157 |
| kTang | xiə̌ |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 306:272 |
| kXHC1983 | 1234.020:xǐ |