U+86CB "蛋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蛋
U+86CB "蛋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "egg," and it is composed semantically with the radical for "worm" or "insect" on top and a phonetic component related to "dan" below, reflecting its historical reference to the eggs of insects, birds, and reptiles. In modern usage, it commonly appears in words such as "鸡蛋" for chicken egg and "蛋黄" for egg yolk, and it also extends metaphorically to describe a zero or a round, egg-shaped object. This character is rendered in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems with the same form and is included in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, making it readable across multiple East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+86CB |
| 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 | 蛋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蛋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9B 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x86CB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000086CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u86cb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B34A |
| kCCCII | 21565A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5D30 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5D30 |
| kCangjie | NOLMI |
| kCantonese | daan6 |
| kCihaiT | 1188.403 |
| kCowles | 4051 4057 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1549.050 |
| kDefinition | eggs; term of abuse |
| kEACC | 21565A |
| kFanqie | 徒旱 |
| kFenn | 785C |
| kFennIndex | 493.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1713.6 |
| kGB0 | 2116 |
| kGB1 | 2116 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kHangul | 단:0N |
| kHanYu | 42845.180 |
| kHanyuPinlu | dàn(168) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42845.180:dàn |
| kHKGlyph | 3598 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1549.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42845.180 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1081.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3530 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B34A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4341 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D5BD |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5331 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5D30 |
| kJapanese | タン ダン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2477 |
| kJapaneseKun | TAMAGO |
| kJapaneseOn | TAN |
| kJis0 | 3533 |
| kKangXi | 1081.110 |
| kKorean | TAN |
| kLau | 462 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5751 |
| kMandarin | dàn |
| kMatthews | 6050 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2947 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023412 |
| kMorohashi | 32977 |
| kNelson | 3019 |
| kPhonetic | 1297 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2943+103.5.6 C+2943+142.6.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.5 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+758D U+8711<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 611.06 443.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | dàn粵daan6,daan2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5751 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 065.180:dàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 246:064 |
| kXHC1983 | 0213.030:dàn |