U+883A "蠺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+883A "蠺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that falls within the broader category of traditional Hanzi used for classical or specialized vocabulary. This character is a variant form of 蠶 (cán), which means "silkworm," and it refers to the insect species Bombyx mori that is cultivated for silk production. In historical and literary contexts, it appears in texts discussing sericulture, the practice of raising silkworms to harvest silk, and is composed of radical elements related to insects and silk.

General Properties

Code Point	U+883A
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	蠺
HTML Hex Encoding	蠺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA0 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x883A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000883A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u883a

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

kCangjie	MKALI
kCantonese	caam4
kDefinition	(same as 蚕) silkworms
kHanYu	42908.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42908.050
kIRGKangXi	1104.110
kIRG_GSource	GE-4B70
kIRG_JSource	J1-5C21
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7316
kIRG_TSource	T4-6C23
kJapanese	サン
kJapaneseKun	KAIKO
kJapaneseOn	SAN
kJis1	6001
kKangXi	1104.110
kMandarin	cán
kMojiJoho	MJ023839
kMorohashi	33891
kNelson	0074
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19775+142.6.18
kRSUnicode	142.18
kTotalStrokes	24