U+5EFC "廼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5EFC "廼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically used as a variant of 乃, meaning "then," "thereupon," or "to be," and also serving as a particle in Classical Chinese for expressing sequence or emphasis. It is sometimes employed as a surname and appears in ancient texts and calligraphy, carrying the meaning of "thus" or "so." The character is composed of the radical 辵 (walk) and a phonetic component, and it is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block for use in East Asian writing systems, though it remains less common in modern Chinese usage.