U+87FD "蟽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+87FD "蟽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character used in literary or classical contexts, primarily representing a type of insect or creature with a shell, often identified as a kind of beetle or cicada. It is composed of the radical "虫" meaning insect, combined with a phonetic component that hints at its pronunciation, though it is not commonly used in modern Mandarin or everyday writing. This character appears in older Chinese texts and dictionaries, serving as a specialized term in entomology or zoological references within the CJK unified ideograph block that encodes dozens of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+87FD
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	蟽
HTML Hex Encoding	蟽
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9F 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x87FD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000087FD
C/C++/Java Escape	\u87fd

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	232C33
kCNS1986	E-5B27
kCNS1992	3-5B27
kCangjie	LIYGQ
kCantonese	daat6
kHanYu	42895.020
kHanyuPinyin	42895.020:dá
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42895.020
kIRGKangXi	1099.060
kIRG_GSource	GE-4B5E
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-023754
kIRG_TSource	T3-5B27
kJapanese	タツ
kKangXi	1099.060
kMandarin	dá
kMojiJoho	MJ023754
kMorohashi	33675
kRSUnicode	142.13
kSimplifiedVariant	"𰲻" U+30CBB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	18