U+8839 "蠹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蠹
U+8839 "蠹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily denotes a "bookworm" or "moth" that eats through paper, wood, or clothing, and by extension, it metaphorically refers to a person or thing that consumes or corrupts from within, such as a harmful element in society or an insect that damages crops. This character is composed of the radical for "insect" (虫) combined with phonetic and semantic components, and it appears in classical texts like the Han Feizi, where it is used to symbolize internal erosion or decay.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8839 |
| 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 | 蠹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蠹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA0 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8839 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008839 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8839 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C5FB |
| kCCCII | 215740 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7C67 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7C67 |
| kCangjie | JBMRI |
| kCantonese | dou3 |
| kCihaiT | 1202.302 |
| kCowles | 4206 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1567.050 |
| kDefinition | moth; insects which eat into cloth |
| kEACC | 215740 |
| kFanqie | 當故 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4013.6 |
| kGB0 | 8328 |
| kGB1 | 8328 |
| kGSR | 0795r |
| kHangul | 두:1N |
| kHanYu | 42908.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42908.090:dù |
| kHKGlyph | 3666 |
| kIICore | AGTH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1567.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42908.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1104.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-733C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C5FB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6A45 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7314 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5D66 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7C67 |
| kJapanese | ト ツ きくいむし |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6487 |
| kJapaneseKun | KIKUIMUSHI SHIMI |
| kJapaneseOn | TO TSU |
| kJis0 | 7437 |
| kKangXi | 1104.050 |
| kKorean | TWU |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5871 |
| kMandarin | dù |
| kMeyerWempe | 3144 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023838 |
| kMorohashi | 33896 |
| kNelson | 4202 |
| kPhonetic | 1376 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6570+142.6.18 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.18 |
| kSBGY | 368.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 624.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dù粵dou3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5871 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 081.160:dù |
| kTotalStrokes | 24 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 265:251 |
| kXHC1983 | 0269.060:dù |