U+6CF9 "泹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6CF9 "泹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in historical or specialized contexts, with its most common meaning being "to soak in water" or "to steep," often referring to a method of cooking or processing food by boiling or immersing in hot liquid. It appears in traditional Chinese culinary descriptions, particularly for preparing ingredients like noodles or vegetables by briefly scalding them. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it shares the same encoding across these East Asian languages, though it is now considered relatively rare in modern usage compared to more common characters.