U+8832 "蠲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蠲
U+8832 "蠲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character historically meaning to remove, eliminate, or purify, often used in classical texts to describe the cleansing of debts, taxes, or impurities, as well as referring to the moth or insect that eats wood. It is composed of radical components related to insects and vessels, reflecting its original association with a type of small, wood-boring creature that was later metaphorically extended to signify the act of clearing away or eradicating. Over time, this character has appeared in legal and administrative documents from imperial China, where it denoted the remission of obligations or the purification of ritual spaces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8832 |
| 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 | 蠲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蠲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA0 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8832 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008832 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8832 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F7F8 |
| kCCCII | 232D2A |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6F47 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6F47 |
| kCangjie | TTWLI |
| kCantonese | gyun1 |
| kCihaiT | 1201.402 |
| kCowles | 1837 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1566.280 |
| kDefinition | millipede; glow-worm; bright, clear |
| kEACC | 232D2A |
| kFanqie | 古玄 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8612.7 |
| kGB0 | 7835 |
| kGB1 | 7835 |
| kGSR | 1250f |
| kHangul | 견:1N |
| kHanYu | 42573.240 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42573.240:juān |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1566.280 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42573.240 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1103.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6E43 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F7F8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-7822 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7302 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-583C |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6F47 |
| kJapanese | ケイ ケン ケ きよい のぞく |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6486 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,88,02 |
| kJapaneseKun | YASUDE |
| kJapaneseOn | KEN KEI KE |
| kJis1 | 5993 |
| kKangXi | 1103.180 |
| kKarlgren | 197 |
| kKorean | KYEN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5873 |
| kMandarin | juān |
| kMatthews | 1649 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1289b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023830 |
| kMorohashi | 33873 |
| kPhonetic | 663 1264 1555 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+18632+108.5.18 C+18632+142.6.17 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.17 |
| kSBGY | 136.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 623.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | juān粵gyun1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5873 |
| kTang | guen |
| kTGHZ2013 | 187.040:juān |
| kTotalStrokes | 23 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 271:315 |
| kXHC1983 | 0616.050:juān |