What is the difference between Kangxi Radical Insect and Cjk Ideograph-866b?

Kangxi Radical Insect is U+2F8D in the Kangxi Radicals block. Cjk Ideograph-866b is U+866B in the CJK Unified Ideographs block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Kangxi Radical Insect?

The HTML entity for Kangxi Radical Insect (U+2F8D) is ⾍.

What is the HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-866b?

The HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-866b (U+866B) is 虫.

Are Kangxi Radical Insect and Cjk Ideograph-866b the same Unicode character?

No. Kangxi Radical Insect is U+2F8D (decimal 12173) and Cjk Ideograph-866b is U+866B (decimal 34411). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Kangxi Radical Insect and Cjk Ideograph-866b?

Kangxi Radical Insect (U+2F8D) encodes as E2 BE 8D in UTF-8. Cjk Ideograph-866b (U+866B) encodes as E8 99 AB in UTF-8.

Kangxi Radical Insect vs Cjk Ideograph-866b

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

⾍

Kangxi Radical Insect

U+2F8D

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虫

Cjk Ideograph-866b

U+866B

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Property Comparison

Property	Kangxi Radical Insect	Cjk Ideograph-866b
Codepoint	`U+2F8D`	`U+866B`
Decimal	`12173`	`34411`
HTML Entity	`⾍`	`虫`
HTML Decimal	`⾍`	`虫`
HTML Hex	`⾍`	`虫`
UTF-8	`E2 BE 8D`	`E8 99 AB`
UTF-16	`2F 8D`	`86 6B`
UTF-32	`00002F8D`	`0000866B`
CSS Escape	`\2F8D`	`\866B`
JS Escape	`\u2F8D`	`\u866B`
Python Escape	`\u2F8D`	`\u866B`
URL Encoded	`%E2%BE%8D`	`%E8%99%AB`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Kangxi Radicals`	`CJK Unified Ideographs`
Script	`Han`	`Han`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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