U+86FE "蛾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蛾

U+86FE "蛾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "moth" in modern and classical usage, often referring to the nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinct from butterflies. Its composition combines the radical 虫 (insect) as a semantic component with the phonetic element 我, which provides a clue to its pronunciation as "é" in Mandarin. Beyond its literal meaning, this character appears in various compounds and idioms, such as 飛蛾撲火 (fēi é pū huǒ, "a moth darting into a flame"), which symbolizes self-destructive attraction or reckless behavior. Historically, the character has been used in poetry and literature to evoke themes of fragility, transformation, or ephemeral beauty, and it also appears in technical contexts like entomology and biology to name specific moth species.

General Properties

Code Point	U+86FE
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	蛾
HTML Hex Encoding	蛾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x9B 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x86FE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000086FE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u86fe

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	B8BF
kCCCII	21566C
kCNS1986	1-6646
kCNS1992	1-6646
kCangjie	LIHQI
kCantonese	ngo4
kCihaiT	1190.101
kCowles	3061
kDaeJaweon	1551.180
kDefinition	moth
kEACC	21566C
kFanqie	五何魚倚
kFenn	338F
kFennIndex	370.04
kFourCornerCode	5315.0
kGB0	2274
kGB1	2274
kGSR	0002q
kHangul	아:0N
kHanYu	42856.060
kHanyuPinlu	é(11)
kHanyuPinyin	42856.060:yǐ,é
kHKGlyph	3614
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1551.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42856.060
kIRGKangXi	1083.310
kIRG_GSource	G0-366A
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B8BF
kIRG_JSource	J0-326B
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F7A9
kIRG_KSource	K0-6436
kIRG_TSource	T1-6646
kIRG_VSource	V2-8F63
kJapanese	ガギチゲが
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:2924
kJapaneseKun	GA
kJapaneseOn	GA GI
kJis0	1875
kKangXi	1083.310
kKorean	A
kMainlandTelegraph	5760
kMandarin	é
kMatthews	4784
kMeyerWempe	2060
kMojiJoho	MJ023466
kMorohashi	33082
kNelson	4147
kPhonetic	967
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1387+142.6.7
kRSUnicode	142.7
kSBGY	160.38 243.18
kSMSZD2003Index	613.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	é粵ngo4
kTaiwanTelegraph	5760
kTang	*ngɑ
kTGHZ2013	086.130:é
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	260:355
kXHC1983	0282.100:é 1364.060:yǐ