U+59A3 "妣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+59A3 "妣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji character that primarily means "deceased mother" or "ancestral mother," often used in contexts of mourning and genealogy. It is composed of the radical "女" (woman, female) on the left, indicating its semantic connection to femininity, and the phonetic component "比" on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation (bǐ in Mandarin, hi in some Japanese readings). In classical texts and modern usage, such as in Chinese funeral rites or family records, "妣" contrasts with "考" (deceased father), together representing one's parents in ancestral worship. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encodes historically shared logographic writing systems from China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.