U+6B97 "殗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6B97 "殗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character (Hànzì) that historically carries meanings related to death, illness, or decay, specifically denoting the state of being sick or diseased to the point of vomiting blood, or alternatively, the concept of dying from a prolonged illness. Its structure combines the radical “歹” (meaning “death” or “decay”) with a phonetic component “奄” (yǎn, implying covering or declining), which together evoke a sense of physical deterioration or terminal decline. This character appears in classical Chinese texts, particularly in medical or historical writings describing fatal ailments, but it is seldom used in modern Mandarin or Japanese, making it an obscure glyph preserved mainly for scholarly or lexicographic reference. The character is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, designed to encode characters shared across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.