U+8822 "蠢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蠢
U+8822 "蠢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "stupid" or "foolish" but originates from a visual concept of a large number of insects wriggling in spring, as its radical "虫" (insect) and phonetic component "春" (spring) suggest. In classical Chinese, it often described the sluggish, clumsy movement of insects awakening in warm weather, which later evolved into a derogatory term for mental dullness or ineptitude. This character is used in modern Mandarin in words like "愚蠢" (foolish) and "蠢動" (to wriggle or stir restlessly), and it carries a strong negative connotation when applied to human behavior.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8822 |
| 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 | 蠢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蠢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA0 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8822 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008822 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8822 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C4F8 |
| kCCCII | 21573B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7B25 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7B25 |
| kCangjie | QKALI |
| kCantonese | ceon2 |
| kCihaiT | 1201.101 |
| kCowles | 632 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1565.140 |
| kDefinition | wriggle; stupid; silly; fat |
| kEACC | 21573B |
| kFanqie | 尺尹 |
| kFenn | 472E |
| kFennIndex | 108.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5013.6 |
| kGB0 | 2032 |
| kGB1 | 2032 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0463d |
| kHangul | 준:0N |
| kHanYu | 42901.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42901.100:chǔn |
| kHKGlyph | 3661 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1565.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42901.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1101.440 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3440 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C4F8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6A41 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EAB5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7163 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7B25 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-663E |
| kJapanese | シュン うごめく |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3488 |
| kJapaneseKun | UGOMEKU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHUN |
| kJis0 | 7433 |
| kKangXi | 1101.440 |
| kKorean | CWUN |
| kLau | 421 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5868 |
| kMandarin | chǔn |
| kMatthews | 1496 |
| kMeyerWempe | 414 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023810 |
| kMorohashi | 33797 |
| kNelson | 4199 |
| kPhonetic | 317 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6566+142.6.15 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.15 |
| kSBGY | 278.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 623.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chǔn粵ceon2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5868 |
| kTang | chuǐn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 054.080:chǔn |
| kTotalStrokes | 21 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | xuẩn |
| kXerox | 261:247 |
| kXHC1983 | 0171.060:chǔn |