U+5DBC "嶼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+5DBC "嶼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically used in classical and modern written language to denote a small island or islet, often appearing in geographical names and literary contexts. Its composition features the radical for mountain (山) combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its meaning of a landform surrounded by water. This character is most famously associated with the island of Taiwan, known in Mandarin as "Táiwān" (臺灣), where "嶼" refers to the concept of an island, though it has broader usage in formal and poetic descriptions of coastal landscapes. Represented in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it is encoded for digital text in various East Asian scripts, including traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it retains similar meanings and readings.