U+880E "蠎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+880E "蠎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents a type of large snake, specifically a python or boa, and is classified under the radical for "insect" (虫) with a phonetic component derived from "莽" (mang). Found in classical Chinese texts and traditional vocabulary, this character is rarely used in modern everyday writing, appearing mostly in historical literature, zoological references, or poetic contexts to describe serpents of considerable size and strength. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encoded for digital representation of East Asian script, and carries the pronunciation "mǎng" in Mandarin.