U+6997 "榗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6997 "榗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is primarily used in classical or historical texts, though it is extremely rare in modern usage. Its meaning relates to a type of plant or tree, specifically identified in some dictionaries as the "Chinese sumac," or it can refer to a wooden implement or a kind of wood. The character is composed of the radical for "wood" or "tree" (木) on the left, with a phonetic component on the right, and it appears in certain ancient works like the "Shuowen Jiezi" dictionary where it is described as a tree whose wood was used for making tools. Due to its obscurity, it is not commonly found in everyday written Chinese or Japanese.