U+51CB "凋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+51CB "凋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meanings of withering, fading, or declining, often used in contexts related to plants losing their leaves or flowers, such as in autumn, or metaphorically to describe the weakening or exhaustion of vitality, resources, or prosperity. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is composed of the radical for "ice" (冫) combined with a phonetic component "周" (zhōu), suggesting a sense of coldness or reduction. This character appears in classical and modern East Asian texts, including poetry and literature, where it evokes themes of transience, decay, or hardship, such as in the compound "凋零" (diāolíng) meaning to wither or become desolate.