U+6E10 "渐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6E10 "渐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "gradually" or "by degrees," often used in words like "渐渐" (jiànjiàn, meaning "gradually") and "渐进" (jiànjìn, meaning "progressive" or "incremental"). It is composed of the water radical 氵 on the left and the phonetic component 斩 (zhǎn) on the right, reflecting its historical formation as a phono-semantic compound. In modern Chinese, this character conveys a sense of slow, continuous change over time, and it appears frequently in both literary and everyday contexts to describe processes of development, learning, or natural progression.