U+6843 "桃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+6843 "桃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "peach" and is a common component in words related to the peach tree, its fruit, or derived concepts. In classical and modern contexts, it appears in terms such as 桃花 (táohuā, "peach blossom") which symbolizes romance and spring, and 核桃 (hétao, "walnut," literally "peach of the river"). The character is composed of the radical 木 (mù, meaning "tree" or "wood") on the left, indicating its botanical association, and the phonetic component 兆 (zhào, originally meaning "omen" or "a million") on the right. As a widely used character in East Asian writing systems, it is present in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts, and its cultural significance extends to folklore, where peaches are often linked to longevity and immortality.