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蛨

cjk unified ideograph-86e8

蛨

蛨 appears in older regional Chinese names for grasshopper-like insects, especially 虴蛨. The word around it supplies the sense; dictionary glosses do not settle one species.

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蛨 meaning · 蛨 grasshopper · 虴蛨 · 蛨蚱 · 虴蜢 · 蚱蜢 · 螽斯
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What 蛨 means

蛨 is a character, not an emoji. Its insect sense comes from the surrounding word.

The earliest cited record is in 《方言》, a Han-period book of regional words: 虴蛨 is a Jiangdong (eastern China) name, preserved by a Jin-period commentary. 《說文》, an early Chinese-character dictionary, omits 蛨.

Medieval and later dictionaries gloss 蛨 as 螽斯 or 蚱蜢, but do not identify one species. Related forms include 蛨蚱 and 虴蜢.

Historical or regional insect vocabulary, not emoji shorthand.

It does not name one exact species.

Combination ideas

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The Jiangdong name recorded in 《方言》.
A related spelling in later lexical discussion.

Questions people ask

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Why does 蛨 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 蛨

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 86E8, then Alt+X to get 蛨.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-86e8”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 86e8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
蛨
CSS
\86E8
Chinese pinyin
On a Chinese keyboard using Pinyin, try mò or mo; choose 蛨 if offered.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蛨
HTML hex
蛨
CSS content
content: "\86E8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%9B%A8
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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