U+883F "蠿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+883F "蠿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that historically refers to a type of insect, often interpreted as a kind of caterpillar or a related small creature, though its precise meaning has become obscure over time. It belongs to the broader set of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs, which are standardized characters shared across East Asian writing systems. The character is composed of multiple radical components that hint at its insect-related origin, but it is not commonly used in modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, and its appearance is largely confined to classical texts or specialized dictionaries. This character represents one of the many thousands of unique ideographs in the CJK set, preserving a fragment of linguistic history that has faded from everyday use.

General Properties

Code Point U+883F
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 蠿
HTML Hex Encoding 蠿
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xA0 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x883F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000883F
C/C++/Java Escape \u883f

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 F9A8
kCCCII 253C77
kCNS1986 2-7176
kCNS1992 2-7176
kCangjie VMLII
kCantonese zyut3
kDaeJaweon 1568.110
kFourCornerCode 2213.6
kHanYu 42911.130
kHanyuPinyin 42911.130:zhuō
kIRGDaeJaweon 1568.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42911.130
kIRGKangXi 1105.140
kIRG_GSource GE-4B72
kIRG_HSource HB2-F9A8
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023844
kIRG_KSource K2-5D7B
kIRG_TSource T2-7176
kJapanese セツ セチ サツ
kKangXi 1105.140
kMandarin zhuō
kMojiJoho MJ023844
kMorohashi 33946
kRSUnicode 142.22
kTotalStrokes 27
kUnihanCore2020 HMT