U+659A "斚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+659A "斚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a historically significant Chinese character traditionally used as an ancient form of a ritual wine vessel, often specifically referring to a type of bronze libation cup employed in ancestral ceremonies during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. This character shares close etymological and orthographic ties with related glyphs like "斝," both depicting a handled vessel with a spout, and it falls under the radical 斗 (斗, meaning "dipper" or "ladle") in the Kangxi dictionary classification. While rarely used in modern everyday Chinese writing, it remains of interest to scholars of paleography, epigraphy, and classical Chinese ritual texts, where it denotes not only the physical object but also the symbolic act of offering in religious rites.