U+87F2 "蟲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蟲
U+87F2 "蟲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character representing an insect, worm, or creature, and it is composed of three instances of the simpler character "虫" stacked vertically to emphasize multiplicity. In modern usage, it primarily appears in classical texts, literary contexts, and traditional Chinese writing, whereas its simplified counterpart "虫" is more common today. The character is also shared in Japanese and Korean kanji or hanja, where it carries similar meanings related to bugs and small crawling animals, reflecting its roots in ancient pictographic representations of snakes or venomous creatures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+87F2 |
| 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 | 蟲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蟲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9F 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x87F2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000087F2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u87f2 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2CE |
| kCCCII | 215733 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7739 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7739 |
| kCangjie | LILII |
| kCantonese | cung4 |
| kCihaiT | 1198.202 |
| kCowles | 646 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1562.220 |
| kDefinition | worms; insects |
| kEACC | 215733 |
| kFanqie | 直弓 直衆 |
| kFenn | 785D |
| kFennIndex | 111.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5013.6 |
| kGB1 | 1970 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1009c |
| kHangul | 충:0E |
| kHanYu | 42891.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42891.060:chóng,zhòng,tóng |
| kHKGlyph | 3653 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1562.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42891.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1098.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3366 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2CE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6A35 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EEDE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7579 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7739 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6638 |
| kJapanese | チュウ ジュ トウ ズ むし |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | MUSHI |
| kJapaneseOn | KI CHUU |
| kJis0 | 7421 |
| kKangXi | 1098.160 |
| kKarlgren | 110 |
| kKorean | CHWUNG |
| kLau | 439 440 744 |
| kMandarin | chóng |
| kMatthews | 1519 |
| kMeyerWempe | 437 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023742 |
| kMorohashi | 33633 |
| kNelson | 4185 |
| kPhonetic | 331 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6554+142.6.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.12 |
| kSBGY | 024.26 343.27 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+866B<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "虫" U+866B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 621.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chóng粵cung4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5849 |
| kTang | *djhiung |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | trùng |
| kXerox | 245:057 |
| kXHC1983 | 0149.071:chóng |