U+87E8 "蟨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+87E8 "蟨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character primarily used in classical Chinese and Japanese texts, where it represents a mythical or rare creature often described as a type of insect or small animal, sometimes specifically identified as a "three-legged frog" or a toad that is said to bring good fortune in East Asian folklore. This symbol belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is encoded for logographic writing systems, though it is not commonly used in modern everyday language. Its structure combines the radical for "insect" or "worm" (虫) with a phonetic component, reflecting its traditional classification among small living beings in the natural world.

General Properties

Code Point U+87E8
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 蟨
HTML Hex Encoding 蟨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x9F 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x87E8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000087E8
C/C++/Java Escape \u87e8

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

kBigFive F0D0
kCCCII 232C3D
kCNS1986 2-633B
kCNS1992 2-633B
kCangjie MOLMI
kCantonese kyut3
kCihaiT 1198.504
kDaeJaweon 1562.020
kDefinition the Siberian jerboa
kFanqie 居月
kFourCornerCode 7113.6
kGB5 1681
kHanYu 42890.090
kHanyuPinyin 42890.090:jué
kIRGDaeJaweon 1562.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42890.090
kIRGKangXi 1097.180
kIRG_GSource G5-3071
kIRG_HSource HB2-F0D0
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023731
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7293
kIRG_KSource K2-5D44
kIRG_TSource T2-633B
kJapanese ケツ カチ ケイ ケ
kKangXi 1097.180
kMandarin jué
kMatthews 1688
kMojiJoho MJ023731
kMorohashi 33603
kRSUnicode 142.12
kSBGY 478.25
kTotalStrokes 18
kUnihanCore2020 HMT