U+7070 "灰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+7070 "灰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "ash," "dust," or "gray," and it is composed of the radical for "fire" (火) above the radical for "hand" or "again" (又), symbolically representing the remnants or color of something burned. In modern usage across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, it appears in words like "hui" (Chinese) for gray or ash, "hai" (Japanese) for ash in compounds such as "haijin" (ash person, meaning a heavy smoker), and "hoe" (Korean) for lime or ash. This character also carries cultural connotations of transience and mortality in East Asian contexts, often appearing in poetic or philosophical references to the ephemeral nature of life, while its semantic range extends to describe dull or pale colors and waste materials.