U+87EB "蟫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蟫
U+87EB "蟫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily refers to a type of insect, specifically the silverfish or bookworm, often associated with paper and book damage in traditional contexts. This character is composed of the radical for insect or worm (虫) and a phonetic component, and it appears in classical Chinese texts describing pests that consume cloth, wood, or paper. In modern usage, it is considered a rare or literary character, not commonly found in everyday vocabulary but recognized in historical or entomological references.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+87EB |
| 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 | 蟫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蟫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9F 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x87EB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000087EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u87eb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F0BF |
| kCCCII | 232C39 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-632B |
| kCNS1992 | 2-632B |
| kCangjie | LIMWJ |
| kCantonese | taam4 |
| kCihaiT | 1198.506 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1562.090 |
| kDefinition | silverfish |
| kEACC | 232C39 |
| kFanqie | 餘針 徒含 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5114.6 |
| kGB3 | 6693 |
| kHanYu | 42890.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42890.040:yín,xún |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1562.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42890.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1097.300 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-627D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F0BF |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-7778 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-72BC |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5D47 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-632B |
| kJapanese | シン タン イン ドン ジン しみ |
| kTGH | 2013:7999 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,87,88 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIMI |
| kJapaneseOn | IN TAN DON |
| kJis1 | 5965 |
| kKangXi | 1097.300 |
| kMandarin | yín |
| kMatthews | 7417 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023734 MJ023734:E0101 MJ023735:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 33615 33615:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 1292 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+15104+142.6.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.12 |
| kSBGY | 218.28 221.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 621.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yín粵jam4,taam4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 437.240:yín |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXHC1983 | 1378.070:yín |