U+86CB "蛋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

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with the radical for "worm" or "insect" on top and a phonetic component related to "dan" below, reflecting its historical reference to the eggs of insects, birds, and reptiles.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.