U+8781 "螁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8781 "螁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character composed of a radical meaning "insect" or "reptile" on the left and a phonetic component on the right, with its primary historical meaning referring to a type of snake, specifically one that is old or large, or more broadly indicating the shedding of skin by snakes and other reptiles, a process that also metaphorically extends to the concept of transformation or molting. It is not commonly found in modern standard Chinese, and its usage appears mainly in classical texts or specialized lexicons, often as a variant of related characters like "褪" or "蜕" in certain historical contexts.