U+8804 "蠄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8804 "蠄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of insect, specifically a non-stinging wasp or a large, venomous ant, often associated with the term "蠄蟧" in Cantonese, which refers to a spider. This character is composed of the radical 虫 (insect) on the left, indicating its relation to bugs or creepy-crawlies, and the phonetic component 禽 (qín), which provides a clue to its pronunciation in Mandarin. It is a rare character primarily used in traditional Chinese texts and regional dialects, and it does not appear frequently in modern standard writing or digital communications. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it is encoded for use across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language systems, though its practical usage is very limited outside specialized contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+8804
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 蠄
HTML Hex Encoding 蠄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xA0 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8804
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008804
C/C++/Java Escape \u8804

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 253B69
kCangjie LIOYB
kCantonese kam4
kCheungBauer 142/13;LIOYB;kam4
kCheungBauerIndex 458.12
kCowles 1914
kDefinition (Cant.) 蠄蟧, a spider; 蠄蟝, a toad
kHanYu 42893.080
kHanyuPinyin 42893.080:qín
kIICore CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42893.080
kIRGKangXi 1099.190
kIRG_GSource GH-1112
kIRG_HSource H-9E5E
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023765
kIRG_TSource T5-6943
kJapanese キン ゴン
kKangXi 1099.190
kMandarin qín
kMeyerWempe 1026
kMojiJoho MJ023765
kMorohashi 33689
kPseudoGB1 9246
kRSUnicode 142.13
kTotalStrokes 18
kUnihanCore2020 H