U+53E2 "叢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+53E2 "叢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that conveys the meanings of "cluster," "thicket," "grove," or "collection," and it is used in both Classical and Modern Chinese, as well as in Japanese (where it is read as "kusa" or "sō" in compounds) and Korean (where it is read as "chong" in Sino-Korean). In Chinese, it appears in words like "叢林" (cónglín, meaning "jungle") and "叢書" (cóngshū, meaning "series of books"), emphasizing the idea of things gathered or growing together densely. The character consists of 18 strokes and is composed of the radical "又" (a hand) combined with other elements that suggest a collective or tangled arrangement, reflecting its semantic core of accumulation and multiplicity. Its standardization in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across global text systems.