U+6EBA "溺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+6EBA "溺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to drown" or "to be submerged in water," and it also carries connotations of excessive indulgence or addiction, such as in the term "溺爱" meaning "to spoil" or "to dote on someone too much." Composed of the water radical "氵" on the left and the phonetic component "弱" on the right, it is used in both modern and classical Chinese texts, appearing in contexts ranging from literal descriptions of drowning to figurative expressions of overwhelming passion or harmful habits. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, encompassing a range of East Asian scripts including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where its readings vary by language, such as "nì" in Mandarin, "溺" (deki) in Japanese, and "익" (ik) in Korean.