U+6B42 "歂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6B42 "歂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (kanji/hanja) classified under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, and it primarily carries meanings related to "drink greedily" or "gulp down," often conveying a sense of rushing or being impatient in the act of drinking. Historically, this character appears in classical Chinese texts, and its structure combines the radical 欠 (qiàn, meaning "to lack" or "deficiency," often associated with blowing or breathing actions) with a phonetic component on the left, which is a variant of 耑 (duān, meaning "end" or "tip"). In modern usage, 歂 is rare and is not among the most commonly used characters in contemporary Chinese or Japanese writing, though it may be encountered in specialized literary contexts or in the study of historical documents. The character's encoding in Unicode allows for its precise digital representation across systems that support CJK text.