U+883E "蠾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+883E "蠾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that belongs to the set of ideographs used in historical and classical Chinese texts. Its composition includes the radical for "insect" or "worm" on the left side, suggesting a connection to small creatures or crawling beings, while the right side provides phonetic and semantic clues. In traditional Chinese lexicons, this character is associated with meanings such as a type of insect or a creeping, crawling motion, though it is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese and appears primarily in ancient or literary contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+883E
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 蠾
HTML Hex Encoding 蠾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xA0 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x883E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000883E
C/C++/Java Escape \u883e

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

kBigFive F9A6
kCCCII 232D3E
kCNS1986 2-7174
kCNS1992 2-7174
kCangjie LISYI
kCantonese zuk1
kCihaiT 1202.502
kDaeJaweon 1568.060
kFanqie 之欲 市玉 直録
kFourCornerCode 5712.7
kGB3 6705
kHanYu 42911.040
kHanyuPinyin 42911.040:zhú,shú
kIRGDaeJaweon 1568.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42911.040
kIRGKangXi 1105.040
kIRG_GSource G3-6325
kIRG_HSource HB2-F9A6
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023843
kIRG_KPSource KP1-731F
kIRG_KSource K2-5D7A
kIRG_TSource T2-7174
kJapanese ショク ソク
kKangXi 1105.040
kMandarin zhú
kMojiJoho MJ023843
kMorohashi 33936
kRSUnicode 142.21
kSBGY 461.15 461.46
kSimplifiedVariant "𧑏" U+2744F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 27
kUnihanCore2020 HMT