U+6B98 "殘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+6B98 "殘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in the writing systems of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it primarily conveys meanings related to injury, destruction, or incompleteness. In Chinese, it often appears in words meaning "cruel," "to damage," or "leftover," as in 殘忍 (cánrěn, meaning "cruel") or 殘缺 (cánquē, meaning "incomplete"). In Japanese, it is part of terms like 残酷 (zankoku, meaning "brutal") and 残り (nokori, meaning "remainder"). The character is composed of the radical 歹 (meaning "death" or "decay") on the left, indicating association with harm or deterioration, and a phonetic component 戔 on the right. Its Unicode encoding ensures consistent representation across digital platforms, allowing it to be used in a wide range of East Asian text processing and display systems.