U+86CD "蛍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

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.