U+87EC "蟬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蟬
U+87EC "蟬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "cicada," the insect known for its distinctive summer song and symbolism in East Asian culture. This character, used in both traditional Chinese and Japanese writing (where it is also pronounced "semi" in Japanese), often appears in classical poetry and literature to evoke themes of summer, transience, and rebirth due to the cicada's life cycle. It belongs to the radical "虫" (insect) and is composed of additional strokes that specify the creature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+87EC |
| 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 | 蟬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蟬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9F 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x87EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000087EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u87ec |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2CD |
| kCCCII | 215734 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7738 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7738 |
| kCangjie | LIRRJ |
| kCantonese | sim4 |
| kCihaiT | 1198.103 |
| kCowles | 3936 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1562.100 |
| kDefinition | cicada; continuous |
| kEACC | 215734 |
| kFanqie | 市連 |
| kFenn | 826I |
| kFennIndex | 13.10 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5615.6 |
| kGB1 | 1885 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0147z |
| kHangul | 선:0N |
| kHanYu | 42891.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chán(48) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42891.070:chán,tí,shàn |
| kHKGlyph | 3652 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1562.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42891.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1097.310 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3275 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2CD |
| kIRG_JSource | J3-7B62 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E2C8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6051 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7738 |
| kJapanese | セン ゼン ダイ テイ せみ つづく |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,91,66 |
| kJapaneseKun | SEMI |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN ZEN |
| kKangXi | 1097.310 |
| kKorean | SEN |
| kLau | 2793 |
| kMandarin | chán |
| kMatthews | 5651 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2717 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023736 |
| kMorohashi | 33616 |
| kPhonetic | 1294 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7715+142.6.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.12 |
| kSBGY | 138.33 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蝉" U+8749 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 621.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chán粵sim4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5848 |
| kTang | *zhiɛn |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 257:150 |
| kXHC1983 | 0117.121:chán |