U+87FB "蟻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蟻
U+87FB "蟻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in both Traditional Chinese and Japanese (where it is also a Jōyō kanji) to represent the word for "ant." This character is composed of the radical for "insect" or "worm" on the left side, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation. In Chinese, it is pronounced "yǐ" and appears in common terms, such as "螞蟻" (mǎyǐ, meaning ants collectively), while in Japanese, it is pronounced "ari" and is used similarly to refer to the insect. The glyph has a long history, originating from ancient Chinese script, and continues to be a standard element in East Asian writing systems for denoting these small, social insects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+87FB |
| 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 | 蟻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蟻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9F 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x87FB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000087FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u87fb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C3C6 |
| kCCCII | 215735 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7871 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7871 |
| kCangjie | LITGI |
| kCantonese | ngai5 |
| kCihaiT | 1198.606 |
| kCowles | 3016 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1563.080 |
| kDefinition | ants |
| kEACC | 215735 |
| kFanqie | 魚倚 |
| kFenn | 339F |
| kFennIndex | 220.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5815.3 |
| kGB1 | 5047 |
| kGSR | 0002x |
| kHangul | 의:0N |
| kHanYu | 42898.110 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yǐ(40) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42898.110:yǐ,jǐ |
| kHKGlyph | 3654 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1563.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42898.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1099.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-524F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C3C6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3542 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FDE8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6B7C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7871 |
| kJapanese | ギ ガ あり |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | ARI |
| kJapaneseOn | GI |
| kJis0 | 2134 |
| kKangXi | 1099.030 |
| kKarlgren | 204 |
| kKorean | UY |
| kLau | 2328 |
| kMandarin | yǐ |
| kMatthews | 3005 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2031 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023752 |
| kMorohashi | 33672 |
| kNelson | 4196 |
| kPhonetic | 1554 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1628+142.6.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.13 |
| kSBGY | 243.17 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8798<kLau |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蚁" U+8681 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 622.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yǐ粵ngai5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5852 |
| kTang | *ngyɛ̌ |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 250:053 |
| kXHC1983 | 1364.071:yǐ |