U+63BA "掺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+63BA "掺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in both traditional and simplified scripts, primarily pronounced as "chān" in Mandarin. It conveys the meanings of mixing, blending, or inserting something into a mixture, often in the context of combining liquids, powders, or other substances. In everyday usage, it appears in terms like "掺杂" (chānzá), meaning to adulterate or intermix, and is also used metaphorically to describe interjecting or interfering in a situation. This character originates from the radical for hand (扌) combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its physical connotation of manual mixing, and is widely recognized in modern Chinese writing for both concrete and abstract applications.