U+5188 "冈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5188 "冈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "ridge" or "hill," often referring to a low mountain or a raised, hummock-like landform, and it is a simplified form of the traditional character "岡." It is used in modern Standard Chinese as part of common words such as "山冈" (shān gāng, meaning hill) and appears in place names and personal names across East Asia. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, where it is encoded as a distinct logogram for written communication, carrying specific semantic and phonetic functions in the languages that adopt it.