U+8809 "蠉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8809 "蠉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is used in classical and literary contexts, often referring to a type of insect or small creature. Its structure incorporates the radical for "insect" (虫), indicating its association with bugs or crawling animals, though its specific meaning can vary in ancient texts. The character is rarely used in modern Chinese but may appear in historical documents, poetry, or specialized terminology related to entomology or folklore. Its pronunciation in Mandarin is typically "xuān," and it belongs to the broader set of ideographs that represent complex, less common concepts in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8809
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	蠉
HTML Hex Encoding	蠉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA0 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8809
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008809
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8809

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

kBigFive	F2E0
kCCCII	232C5B
kCNS1986	2-666B
kCNS1992	2-666B
kCangjie	LIWLV
kCantonese	hyun1
kCihaiT	1199.402
kDaeJaweon	1564.050
kDefinition	mosquito larvae, wrigglers
kFanqie	許緣 香兖
kFourCornerCode	5613.2
kGB3	6707
kHanYu	42897.050
kHanyuPinyin	42897.050:xuān
kIRGDaeJaweon	1564.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42897.050
kIRGKangXi	1100.040
kIRG_GSource	G3-6327
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F2E0
kIRG_JSource	J1-5B6B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-72D6
kIRG_KSource	K2-5D58
kIRG_TSource	T2-666B
kJapanese	ケン ゲン
kJapaneseKun	HAU
kJapaneseOn	KEN GEN
kJis1	5975
kKangXi	1100.040
kMandarin	xuān
kMatthews	2879
kMojiJoho	MJ023773
kMorohashi	33699
kPhonetic	1419*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22456+142.6.13
kRSUnicode	142.13
kSBGY	140.35 294.47
kTotalStrokes	19
kUnihanCore2020	HMT