U+8827 "蠧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蠧

U+8827 "蠧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "moth" or "worm that eats books or clothing," often referencing pests that damage materials like wood or paper. It is a variant of the more common character 蠹 (U+8839) and shares the same radical for insect or vermin. In classical Chinese texts, this character is sometimes used metaphorically to describe harmful or corrupt influences, such as a "bookworm" or a person who undermines society from within. Its structure combines the top component for wood or tree with the bottom insect radical, visually suggesting an insect that bores into wood. While not as frequently used in modern simplified Chinese, it remains relevant in traditional and literary contexts, particularly in discussions of decay or pestilence.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8827
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	蠧
HTML Hex Encoding	蠧
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA0 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8827
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008827
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8827

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	232C7E
kCNS1986	E-5F5F
kCNS1992	3-5F5F
kCangjie	GBMRI
kCantonese	dou3
kCihaiT	1201.307
kDaeJaweon	1565.290
kDefinition	moth; insects which eat into cloth
kEACC	4B5740
kFenn	785H
kFennIndex	569.06
kFourCornerCode	4013.6
kGB5	2306
kHanYu	42903.090
kIRGDaeJaweon	1565.290
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42903.090
kIRGKangXi	1102.230
kIRG_GSource	G5-3726
kIRG_HSource	H-9CB2
kIRG_JSource	J0-6A46
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-72F9
kIRG_KSource	K2-5D6C
kIRG_TSource	T3-5F5F
kJapanese	トきくいむし
kJapaneseKun	KIKUIMUSHI SHIMI
kJapaneseOn	TO
kJis0	7438
kKangXi	1102.230
kMandarin	dù
kMatthews	6507
kMojiJoho	MJ023815
kMorohashi	33824
kNelson	1158
kPhonetic	1376
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6571+33.3.19 C+6571+142.6.16
kRSUnicode	142.16
kSemanticVariant	U+8799<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	623.12
kTotalStrokes	22
kUnihanCore2020	HJ
kXHC1983	0269.063:dù