U+8814 "蠔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蠔

U+8814 "蠔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally used to denote an oyster, particularly in the context of East Asian cuisine and aquaculture. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is composed of the radical for insect or creature on the left, combined with a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation. This character appears in words such as the Cantonese term for oyster sauce, a common condiment, and is also found in place names and historical texts related to coastal regions where oyster harvesting was significant.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8814
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	蠔
HTML Hex Encoding	蠔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA0 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8814
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008814
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8814

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	C4AE
kCCCII	215739
kCNS1986	1-7A39
kCNS1992	1-7A39
kCangjie	LIYRO
kCantonese	hou4
kCihaiT	1200.401
kCowles	1105
kDaeJaweon	1564.330
kDefinition	oyster
kEACC	215739
kFanqie	胡刀
kFourCornerCode	5013.2
kHanYu	42900.210
kHanyuPinyin	42900.210:háo
kHKGlyph	3658
kIICore	ATHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	1564.330
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42900.210
kIRGKangXi	1100.490
kIRG_GSource	GE-4B67
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C4AE
kIRG_JSource	J13-7B66
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-72E4
kIRG_KSource	K2-5D60
kIRG_TSource	T1-7A39
kJapanese	ゴウコウかき
kJIS0213	1,91,70
kJapaneseKun	KAKI
kJapaneseOn	KOU GOU
kJis1	5982
kKangXi	1100.490
kLau	1197
kMandarin	háo
kMatthews	2071
kMeyerWempe	745
kMojiJoho	MJ023790
kMorohashi	33748
kPhonetic	482
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+15110+142.6.14
kRSUnicode	142.14
kSemanticVariant	U+27422<kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index	623.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	háo粵hou4
kTaiwanTelegraph	9166
kTotalStrokes	20
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	270:262
kXHC1983	0444.041:háo