U+8799 "螙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+8799 "螙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an obscure Chinese character that primarily means "grubs" or "insect larvae," specifically those that bore into wood or damage plants, and it is also used metaphorically to refer to corrupting or decaying influences. This character is composed of the radical for "insect" combined with a phonetic component, and it appears in historical and classical Chinese texts rather than in modern everyday usage.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8799
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
螙
HTML Hex Encoding
螙
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x9E 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8799
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008799
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8799
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kCCCII
232B45
kCNS1986
E-5262
kCNS1992
3-5262
kCangjie
DLII
kCantonese
dou3
kCihaiT
1196.108
kDaeJaweon
1558.200
kDefinition
grubs in wood, worms in books, clothes, etc. used figuratively of corrupt officials
kEACC
232B45
kFanqie
當故
kFennIndex
569.06
kGB5
3762
kHanYu
42877.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
42877.020
kIRG_GSource
G5-455E
kIRG_JSource
J1-5B46
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-722D
kIRG_KSource
K2-5C75
kIRG_TSource
T3-5262
kJapanese
ト きくいむし
kJis1
5938
kKangXi
1093.280
kMandarin
dù
kMatthews
6507
kMojiJoho
MJ023644
kMorohashi
33416
kPhonetic
932 1376
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+15099+142.6.10
kRSUnicode
142.10
kSBGY
368.18
kSemanticVariant
U+8827<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
619.03
kTotalStrokes
16
kXHC1983
0269.062:dù