U+87F5 "蟵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+87F5 "蟵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and highly specialized Chinese character (Hanzi) used primarily in classical or technical contexts, likely referring to a type of insect or a zoological term, as its radical "虫" (insect, worm, or reptile) suggests. Its exact meaning is not widely documented in modern standard Chinese dictionaries, but it may appear in historical texts, ancient lexicons, or specialized biological nomenclature. This character represents one of many obscure CJK ideographs encoded in Unicode to preserve linguistic diversity and enable digital representation of historical or scholarly materials.

General Properties

Code Point	U+87F5
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	蟵
HTML Hex Encoding	蟵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9F 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x87F5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000087F5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u87f5

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

kCCCII	232C3F
kCNS1986	E-6646
kCNS1992	3-6646
kCangjie	LIMMI
kCantonese	cyu4
kEACC	232C3F
kHanYu	42890.051
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42890.051
kIRGKangXi	1098.441
kIRG_GSource	GE-4B5C
kIRG_HSource	H-A061
kIRG_JSource	J4-7771
kIRG_TSource	T3-6646
kJapanese	チュ かや
kJIS0213	2,87,81
kKangXi	1098.441
kMandarin	chú
kMojiJoho	MJ023745
kMorohashi	H548
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+15421+142.6.12
kRSUnicode	142.12
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	H