U+87B9 "螹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+87B9 "螹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents a type of insect or small creature, traditionally identified as a "cicada" or a similar bug in classical texts, though its precise zoological referent can vary. The character is composed of the radical 虫 (chong, meaning "insect" or "creature") on the left and the phonetic component 斬 (zhan, meaning "to cut" or "behead") on the right, reflecting its logographic construction. It appears in older Chinese dictionaries and literary works but is rarely used in modern standard Mandarin, making it an obscure character primarily of interest to historical linguistics or paleography.