U+86CD "蛍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蛍
U+86CD "蛍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "firefly" and is commonly used in East Asian languages, including Japanese and Korean, where it carries the same symbolic association with light, summer nights, and transient beauty. In modern usage, it often appears in poetry, literature, and cultural references, particularly in Japanese contexts where it is linked to traditional firefly viewing (hotaru gari). This character is composed of the radical for "insect" (虫) combined with a phonetic component indicating its sound, reflecting its origins as a logogram representing a glowing insect.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+86CD |
| 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 | 蛍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蛍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9B 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x86CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000086CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u86cd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | FBLMI |
| kCantonese | jing4 |
| kDefinition | glow-worm, luminous insect |
| kEACC | 4B5724 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3213.6 9013.6 |
| kHanYu | 42845.041 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42845.041 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1081.111 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4B2A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3756 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7162 |
| kJapanese | ケイ ほたる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | HOTARU |
| kJapaneseOn | KEI EI GYOU |
| kJis0 | 2354 |
| kKangXi | 1081.111 |
| kKorean | HYENG |
| kMandarin | yíng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023414 |
| kMorohashi | 32983 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1836+42.3.8 C+1836+142.6.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.5 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |