U+87E4 "蟤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蟤
U+87E4 "蟤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a relatively rare Chinese character that historically refers to a type of insect or worm, often associated with the notion of a parasitic or burrowing creature such as a maggot or grub, and appears in classical texts like the "Erya" dictionary where it describes the season of autumn as the time when "clan-chiefs become this insect." Its structural components are the radical 虫 (insect, reptile) on the left and the phonetic element 巽 (xùn) on the right, which together indicate its pronunciation and semantic category. This character is not commonly used in modern Chinese, but it represents a specific biological or mythological term from ancient Chinese natural philosophy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+87E4 |
| 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 | 蟤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蟤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9F 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x87E4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000087E4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u87e4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F0C4 |
| kCCCII | 253B3C |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6330 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6330 |
| kCangjie | LIRUC |
| kCantonese | zyun1 |
| kCihaiT | 1198.502 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1561.350 |
| kFanqie | 莊緣 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5718.1 |
| kGB3 | 6706 |
| kHanYu | 42894.120 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42894.120:zhuān |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1561.350 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42894.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1097.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6326 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F0C4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5B5F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-72AB |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5D40 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6330 |
| kJapanese | セン ゼン |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN ZEN |
| kJis1 | 5963 |
| kKangXi | 1097.120 |
| kMandarin | zhuān |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023727 |
| kMorohashi | 33597 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+22450+142.6.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.12 |
| kSBGY | 142.22 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |