U+8823 "蠣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蠣
U+8823 "蠣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used in East Asian languages, primarily meaning "oyster" in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese contexts. It is composed of the insect or shell radical and a phonetic component, and it appears in compound terms like "牡蠣" (oyster) and "蠣殻" (oyster shell), reflecting its practical use in cuisine and marine biology. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, this character is encoded for digital text representation, supporting historical and modern written forms across several languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8823 |
| 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 | 蠣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蠣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA0 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8823 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008823 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8823 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C4F7 |
| kCCCII | 21573C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7B24 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7B24 |
| kCangjie | LIMTB |
| kCantonese | lai6 |
| kCihaiT | 1201.102 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1565.170 |
| kDefinition | oyster |
| kEACC | 21573C |
| kFanqie | 力制 |
| kFenn | 577I |
| kFennIndex | 298.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5112.7 |
| kGB1 | 8235 |
| kGSR | 0340f |
| kHangul | 려:0N |
| kHanYu | 42900.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42900.010:lì |
| kHKGlyph | 3660 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1565.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42900.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1102.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7243 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C4F7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-695A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D7F6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-556E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7B24 |
| kJapanese | レイ ライ かき |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAKI |
| kJapaneseOn | REI |
| kJis0 | 7358 |
| kKangXi | 1102.020 |
| kKarlgren | 539 |
| kKorean | LYE |
| kMandarin | lì |
| kMatthews | 3911 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1473c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023811 MJ023811:E0101 MJ023812:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 33799:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4198 |
| kPhonetic | 773 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6497+142.6.14 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.15 |
| kSBGY | 378.55 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蛎" U+86CE CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 623.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lì粵lai6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5869 |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 273:107 |
| kXHC1983 | 0697.171:lì |