U+86EF "蛯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

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.