U+86EF "蛯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蛯
U+86EF "蛯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used primarily in Japanese and traditional Chinese contexts. It combines the radical for insect or worm (虫) with the phonetic component 老 (meaning old or aged), and its most common meaning refers to a type of shrimp or prawn, especially in Japanese where it is used as a variant of 海老 (ebi). In Chinese, it is less frequently used but can denote an insect or a creature associated with aging, such as a shrimp with a curved back, and it appears in some historical texts and dialects. This character is classified under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block and represents a specific grapheme within East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+86EF |
| 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 | 蛯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蛯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x9B 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x86EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000086EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u86ef |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | LIJKP |
| kCantonese | lou5 |
| kDefinition | shrimp |
| kEACC | 696962 |
| kFourCornerCode | 5411.1 |
| kHanYu | 42847.061 |
| kIICore | CJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42847.061 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1083.151 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4B2E |
| kIRG_HSource | H-99CB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6962 |
| kJapanese | えび |
| kJapaneseKun | EBI |
| kJis0 | 7366 |
| kKangXi | 1083.151 |
| kMandarin | lǎo |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023454 |
| kMorohashi | 33061 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6505+125.6.6 C+6505+142.6.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.6 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJ |